Moon
Antalya
Turkey, 2005

On a dark night near Antalya, Hans Wilschut photographs the landscape in moonlight. At first, everything seems deserted, as if the space has momentarily withdrawn completely into silence. But in the distance, headlights appear to move across the landscape. A small sign, almost insignificant, and yet enough to disrupt that sense of isolation. He is not alone. Perhaps we never fully are anymore.
For this photograph, Wilschut keeps most of the light from the lens with a piece of black cardboard. Only at the moments when points of light move through the darkness does he allow light to enter the image at intervals. What emerges is a photograph in which the landscape does not reveal itself all at once, but gradually, piece by piece. The image balances between presence and absence, between silence and disturbance.