Wim Harwig

Categorie: B&W

  • 67

    67

    I mounted my camera on a tripod and waited to see what happened. .

  • Black&White

    Black&White

  • Usually heavy work, but in between always time for a chat and a newspaper …

    Usually heavy work, but in between always time for a chat and a newspaper …

    People who perform heavy work know it … you have to know exactly what is your weakest link and ensure that it does not break. So it is important to eat and drink on time and take a pause. Only in this way will you be able to “survive” until your retirement. What we did…

  • A typically tough and hard-working laborer

    A typically tough and hard-working laborer

    Jaap Bosman was always called “Lange Jaap” (tall Jaap) by colleagues at the Hoechst-site in Vlissingen, because in our shift there were 3 operators with the same Christian name … and Jaap was indeed as tall and strong as a bear, always wore the largest size overalls and shoes and his helmet always seemed too…

  • Night shift Hoechst Vlissingen, 1983.

    Night shift Hoechst Vlissingen, 1983.

    Back then it was strictly forbidden to take pictures … (it was the time when it was not even allowed to use a transistor radio in the control room) … so I took pictures illegally, to capture the atmosphere in the control room where colleagues also came for a cup of coffee and a short…

  • Vlissingen, 1982.

    Vlissingen, 1982.

    It was 1982 and I lived in the center of Vlissingen. It was cozy, simple and always busy with tourists who came to the coastal town and port city for the many cultural events. Many pubs, restaurants and terraces and along the beach many beach bars … There was a lot of employment, fair earnings…

  • Cycle Vision in Lelystad, 2003

    Cycle Vision in Lelystad, 2003

    Cycle Vision, the annual recumbent bike event organized by the Dutch recumbent association, took place in 2003 in Lelystad. Because of the COVID-19 measures I now started to rummage through my old negatives albums, I came across the photo reports that I made back then. I immediately recognized a few well-known celebrities among Dutch recumbent…

  • unmistakably Vlissingen

    unmistakably Vlissingen

    It was the fall of 1984. Our oldest daughter had just been born. If you live here and take a walk together, then the Vlissingen area is undeniably present in your photos … When I look back at the photos I took myself in the past, my thoughts wander back to the time of falling…

  • Vlissingen, 1984.

    Vlissingen, 1984.

    In 1984, the year in which George Orwell foresaw a totally different world, the Vereniging Nederlandse Loodsen Sociëteit existed for 100 years and that fact was celebrated exuberantly with all kinds of festivities. At the moment I am digitizing my old negatives from that year 1984, because our society has now come to resemble the…

  • old sailing ships on the Oosterschelde

    old sailing ships on the Oosterschelde

    analogue photography has something mysterious in the current digital age … the realization that I took these photos some 40 years ago makes me feel like an old man … I think it’s fantastic that there are still photographers who make their photos analog, although I notice that the technique of the darkroom is often…

  • old negatives with many fond memories

    old negatives with many fond memories

    The rising fascism and the putting of the human economy above the natural pandemic annoys me terribly. Modern digital social media has destroyed the human capacity for news gathering, consultation and collaboration. To put things into perspective, to find a bit more distraction and to get through the current long dark winter evenings I took…

  • grandmotherhood

    grandmotherhood

  • grandmother’s tricks

    grandmother’s tricks

    Grandchild gets whimsy and needs a short nap, but she doesn’t realize this herself and you can’t explain it to her either. In this situation, grandmother lovingly presses her to her chest and hums a lullaby … always works … It worked so well … that Grandfather almost fell asleep too …

  • Black&white

    Black&white

    Ellenbrandwijkphotography inspired me with her photos to look a bit more in black and white. So I played with light instead of colors …

  • My walk through life …

    My walk through life …

    I didn’t see a path through my life … it arose when I just walked … and hopefully, my path will disappear for my offspring because I used a lot of stuff that polluted … Sorry, but my excuses would be useless for them … a better path for future generations can be found in the…