Don't You Wish You Were On The Other Side Of The Glass

By David Van Eyssen

“I’m always asking questions when I work. Where does the figure belong in relation to the rest of the objects in the frame, and to the window itself? Is the reflection ambiguous — does it ask the viewer to query the position of the subject? Does the image make us ask what is on the inside looking out, or on the outside looking in, and where that dividing line is? When I’m taking a picture, I work with the same cues we look for unconsciously in everyday life to tell us what's real or not.”