Daan Oude Elferink — photographer, artist, adventurer. Fourteen years tracing the seams between memory and oblivion.
Daan Oude Elferink answers to three things at once. A photographer of fourteen years, a self-published artist, and an adventurer who counts a successful trip in unlocked doors. Choose where to begin.
Fourteen years, twenty-three countries, one hundred and eighty-seven plates. A self-taught documentarian of decay — working in long exposures, available light, and a great deal of patience.
Four bound volumes, exhibitions across the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, a companion application that lets readers step inside the photographs. The work has been called both unsettling and luminous — sometimes in the same breath.
From Pripyat to Sicily, Wallonia to Saxony. The places I photograph aren’t on any tourist map — and getting in is, every time, a small expedition. Some take an hour. Some take three years of letters.
I am pleased to take you to the world behind the ‘no entry’ signs and the locked doors. It offers a glimpse of the beautiful, forbidden world of decay as I see it.
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