Tom Callemin painting Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020)

Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020) is a photographer’s photographer

This comic book

a 1946 novel by the American author Carson McCullers

living in Italy and wrestling with belonging

naked bodies on motorcycles

Tom Callemin painting Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020)Twelve enigmatic images comprise this series by Belgian photographer Tom Callemin. The subjects people, nudes, ruined houses, trees, metal objects are pinned against a deep black background, caught in the flashbulbs glare in a stark and confrontational moment. We are forced to wonder about the underlying histories of the various abandoned structures, or why the man and young girl flinch before the cameras gaze, their hands raised in front of their