ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Take a seat on the terrace of a café and watch the constant flow of passers-by, the hundreds and thousands of fellow human beings going back and forth, each at their own pace, pursuing their ever accelerating daily life. Let your eyes follow one in particular. Just a few seconds will pass from when the person enters your field of vision then turns the street corner. At that point the image of the person will already appear blurred to you and the recollection will inevitably dim.
The delightful combination of reality and movement, a frozen, practically unchangeable world in the background and, at the heart of this architecture, the constantly repeated coming and going of a crowd, a fascinating saraband relating the passing of time. Silhouettes that leave misty traces, meeting, merging and fleeing out of the image in a dance that appears to have been invented for the sole pleasure of the eyes.
A latent melancholy can be felt... the ebb and flow of City life is unveiled. The impermanency of our existence, anonymous lives eager to devour the world and which, finally, are digested by it. The image of a world that vanishes as soon as it is invented, but which is constantly regenerated. It recalls Baudelaire: "the image of a past world, as if veiled by tears of nostalgia. Let memory do its slow work, let what is latent and imaginary emerge…".

AUTHOR
Of Danish origin and naturalized Belgian when he was 18 years old, Marc Krüger graduated in Biology and Management at the University of Brussels. He currently lives in Brussels and has been practicing photography since the age of 14. Until 2011 he has been working for his own company in the Media sector, and since 2012 devoted himself on a full time basis to the photography.

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