Claire Dekens Fotografie

Lost Rituals

Lost Rituals There are a lot of table rituals. Pouring the wine, the first tasting. The nice arrangement of the food on your plate. Those are rituals that make the food tastier. We elevate food to a cultural experience. However, somewhere down the road, we have replaced these meal rituals with fast food. Food …

Home, Still Life

In Search For Nature

In Search For Nature This work is a search for the way in which women would deal with nature in the future. According to Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology, a woman becomes part of nature when she works outside. This is in contrast to the man, who remains a personality or looks more like a …

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Disused

Disused We all leave a trail of plastic waste. This trail does not only consist of small elements of microplastics. It is also a trace we leave behind from our personal daily activities. We put the remains of these operations in a plastic bag and give it to the garbage truck or we leave …

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Drowning in Plastic

Drowning in Plastic Theme of this project is ‘Plastic Pollution’ and the effect on humankind. With these pictures I want to represent the oppressive feeling of humans surrounded by plastic. There is also a booklet about this project with some extra information about the theme. You can find this in my blog.

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Tribute to René Magritte

Everyone knows the work of René Magritte. These are mainly surrealist paintings, subjects that you can’t photograph like that. You often have to take several photos and then combine them with the help of Photoshop. And this in such a way that it is not visible. I was only satisfied with the result when the …

Fashion / Still life, Home

Fashion & Real Life

Fashion emphasizes class awareness. It is a masquerade under social pressure. In fashion photography one promises the good life. The models wear expensive clothes and look successful, household tasks are not among the occupations of these women. A desire is called that can never be fulfilled.

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