Eindhoven: good to have you here

On entering the city limits of Eindhoven a sign greets you stating: Goed dat je er bent (good to have you here). This motto was the inspiration for an outdoor art project by Centrum voor de Kunsten Eindhoven or CKE. Under the instruction of Marcel de Buck and Hanneke Franssen-Moorren a group of amateur photographers in the CKE (Eindhoven Arts Centre) photography class tried their hand at portraiture in the style of Richard Avedon. The first series of these portraits is on display on the building fences near the train station (a monument from 1956 that is being remodelled and expanded to double capacity) starting January 14 2017. The ambition is to have new series of photographs of ordinary people made by ordinary people all over the city as temporary exhibitions.

People going about their daily business were portrayed in a uniform manner against a white backdrop. The idea was to select character faces (or "tronie" a genre in 17th century Dutch painting).The photographs were printed on paper and stuck to the building fence behind the public bicycle parking at Eindhoven Central station. Now some two weeks after they were put up about half of the pictures have come down...