Tom Janssen

I am fascinated by humankind and how she inhabits the earth, able to find her way in every landscape, modelling it in a shape she deems fit.

Admiring nature, but also the way buildings are designed, cities are planned, the landscape altered. How tiny we are between all this, but so immensely influential.

I'm astonished that we only look but don't see. We have become too used to the human habitat. Only places and buildings that are radically different are still able to draw our attention.

I take distance, observe the mundane. Show exactly those places that we would normally neglect. Confronting humankind with herself and her environment, but above all, letting her look in a different way to the constructed space we live in.

Tom Janssen lives and works in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where he finished art academy at HKU in 2010, next to some time at DIT Photography’s department in Dublin, Ireland during 2007. Tom’s work has been published by different newspapers and magazines and has been on show at venues like The Netherlands Photo Museum (NFm), Museum of Photography The Hague, FOTODOK and more recently at Van Kranendonk Gallery during Art Rotterdam.

The image shown in the background is part of the series PARADE, if you like you can check out more about this project on my website and have a look at some more images. A book will be available soon.