Thijs Wolzak (1965) has been working on an ever-expanding oeuvre since 1988, both commissioned and in independent projects. He proclaims to utilize all means at his disposal to meticulously control his images from top left to bottom right, but his approach is fundamentally documentary. His visuals encapsulate encounters: with a person, a place, or an object. They are typically intricate narrations, with a strong emphasis on the context of the subject at hand. Wolzak perfectly aligns with the school of staged documentary photography.
So, ‘encounters’. Every time, he would spend hours at their homes, trying to find the right angle. The interiors didn’t really interest him, he once said in an interview. It doesn’t matter to him how he lives himself: ‘I don’t need a certain environment to feel comfortable.’ During many photoshoots, he would often be left speechless when he saw how far people go in constructing their own space. What is astonishing or absurd to most viewers is completely natural to these residents. Their choices are the only logical ones for them.
With the exhibition on interiors and the encounters a magnificent has been published whichis now available at www.ftn-books.com
