Caroline Kist

My brother is a beacon. Reinoud has Down’s syndrome. When he was five years old, I arrived in his life: a world shaped differently, in which the wisdom of the body has not been lost and the spirit is not constricted by reason. His world is magnetic, it pulls and feels safe. There within, things can take on other forms: minuscule becomes magnanimous, and what is considered immense is scaled to minor. In his world everything is rooted, unconditioned and unconditional. He holds no judgements, no desires for more, he is not burdened by the compulsion of efficiency. In his world, sadness and joy can spill through into a single moment. And his existence is unquestioned, it just is.


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What am I looking at? And what do I see? If anything characterises my images, it is these questions. I have doubts about what I see, I want to go beyond what we think we know. But I also know that the extraordinary dwells in the ordinary. It’s for this reason that I photograph my close surroundings, pausing with what I imagine to know. This could be my children, my brother, perhaps my dog, or the places I inhabit: my home or while away.
For me, photography is waiting, waiting for the unknown to emerge within the worlds I imagine to already know.*

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