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The Death of the Unedited Life — my new essay, now on The Wandering Muse.

I went to the Ed van der Elsken retrospective at the Rijksmuseum on a Sunday afternoon in high season, which was a bad idea logistically and a good idea for everything else.

Nine rooms. Forty years of work. Contact sheets with every crossed-out frame still intact. Colour slides his publishers refused to include. Film footage of the Nieuwmarkt and Waterlooplein where he described what he saw in six words: Echte mensen. Geen rijke mensen. Interessanter. Real people. Not rich people. More interesting.

The piece isn't really about photography. It's about what happens when the edit moves from the photograph to the life itself.

Read it here on Substack

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theleoisallinthemind

Somewhere between art school and getting paid to make things, every hobby started auditioning for a job.

I didn't notice it happening until a small sketchbook in the Kröller-Müller Museum reminded me what I'd lost.

My newest essay isn't really about drawing. It's about permission. Permission to make something that doesn't have to become anything.

Read the whole article on The Wandering Muse on Substack

official-kircheis

where's that post of someone getting a letter from their bank like "dear keith we realise you're just taking the piss but every time you venmo your mate for 'al-qaeda training camp' we do have to, by law, fill out a lot of boring paperwork for the police so we'd really appreciate it if you'd stop doing that"