Return of the citiZen

Last weekend I returned to the inner city of Amsterdam and to my mission of 'taking another few citiZen'. With the latter I mean a special kind of city photography, inspired by Saul Leiter, in which city images are captured in an intuitive, abstracting and esthetically way, in which alienation, reflections and multi-layering are important style elements. See for example also my earlier series citiZen and symphoNY on my website. And then now for the first time in Summer - meaning different light and more color! Evidently I had to get into it again - which was not easy. Nevertheless I returned with some nice pictures, like a portrait of this man, framed twice in multiple squares and surrounded by colors ands fellow citizens.

After lonely 'tigering around' for over three hours it was good to have a nice cup of coffee with my photo-friend Hester - accomplice in crime - in Café De Waag where our citiZen adventure started at the beginning of this year. We then moved on visit the EYE, the hyper-modern film museum across the IJ. Splendid building, perfectly apt to mixing Leiterian and good old-fashioned architecture photography. So, what to think of this peek through?

Within a colorful almost Mondrian frame we see two people, having a conversation at the water side, who, if you peek through your eyelashes, reduce to two (living) points that thanks to their sharpness immediately draw your attention. In both images I played locally with the vibrancy of the colors using hints of CEP3 Film Effects Fuji Superia 200.