Bestseller from The Nature of Art Collection
Some mornings feel like they belong to another time. This was one of them. A still, grey mist hung low over the Rapenburg canal in Leiden, softening every edge and turning the water into a perfect mirror. The reflections of the historic buildings are so sharp it’s hard to tell where the canal ends and the street begins. The boat resting in the bottom left adds a quiet anchor, and the bare trees lining both sides give the scene a delicate, almost skeletal frame. The whole image feels like it’s been paused — no people moving, no wind, just silence. The black-and-white treatment strips everything down to its essentials: form, structure, light. There’s a calm here that goes beyond the visual. It’s the kind of calm that slows your thoughts and makes you notice small things, like the way the rail curves or how the window frames align. It's a timeless kind of stillness that sticks with you.
Welcome to my world of photography. I am Martijn Jebbink, born in the Netherlands and living in Rome.
I grew up in a small town, surrounded by an impressive forest. In that environment I developed my own way of looking at the world. At first, I didn’t see..
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