Maturenl 24 03 29 Irenka Photographing My Old S New Direct

– She asks you to hold the watch. She photographs your hands, not the watch. You realize: the watch is old, your hands are older. But the new is the relationship between them – the way your thumb naturally rests on the crown, as if ready to wind it, even though you never do.

The file name stares back from the folder: maturenl_24_03_29_irenka_photographing_my_old_s_new maturenl 24 03 29 irenka photographing my old s new

One day, perhaps on 24 March 2029, you will open a folder on your computer and see a file you made today. It will look old. And then you will see it freshly, as if for the first time. That is the gift Irenka leaves you: the knowledge that every photograph of the old is, in its own moment, new. – She asks you to hold the watch

– Over tea, you show her the object: your father’s wristwatch. It stopped running in 1997. You have kept it in a drawer. “It’s old and broken,” you say. But the new is the relationship between them