Absorbing Life

The book is a collection of frozen moments in various countries: the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, UK, China, South Korea and Taiwan. Her photos show the
alienation and beauty that makes a photo what it is and ensures that the image has an impact. But even more impressively, the photos reveal what it means to be human and the absurdities of daily life.

The photo book Absorbing Life contains around 100 sets (spreads) of black and white photographs that are also interrelated, either because they are similar in appearance or because they look completely different yet strengthen each others message.
Carina Weijma (1969, Groningen) studied Italian and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Alongside her artistic career she also works as an (inter)national advisor.
With her individual approach of black and white street photography, she creates a reflection of the era in which we live as objectively as possible. Carina Weijma’s work invites us to think about ourselves, about what ‘life’ actually means, whether objectivity truly exists, about our often-unconscious prejudices.