Erik Van Der Weijde – Lithium Lecturis the sun and the snow

the sun and the snow

So all we can do is gaze at a few dozen young faces that Olivier Suter presents to us and delight in or marvel at what became of these kids

and for unremarkable detail framed in such a way as to make it suddenly remarkable

crude photoshop operations and delicate grey variations

the senses reawakened

Erik Van Der Weijde – Lithium Lecturis the sun and the snowIn Lithium Erik van der Weijde once again turns the camera on his son, who is now a teenager. The photographs were taken between 2018 and 2019, capturing a pivotal time in their lives and relationship. The series is partly set in Brazil, his sons home country, during their last year together there, and also partly in their first year after moving to Europe. It is clear that transitions and the gap between expectations and reality left their mark on