TITUS SIMOENS 11:00 am

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TITUS SIMOENS 11:00 am

TITUS SIMOENS 11:00 am describes and shows the weekly appointments between Alfons and photographer Titus Simoens. Alfons is an 81-year-old man who lives in Ghent, close to the house of Simoens. From October 2017 till May 2018 Simoens visited Alfons every week at 11:00 am. They talked and told stories. Simoens wrote down Alfons’s stories and photographed him during his visits. Alfons decided to cook for Simoens every time he paid him a visit. It became their weekly ritual.

As well as writing down Alfons’s stories and collecting photographs, Simoens also questioned his position as a photographer and documenter. Questioning how the development of a project like this proceeds. How a story develops. How the photographer deals with the notion of ‘a story’ and they portray characters in that same story. What is objective and what is subjective. Under which condition is a story fiction and when a documentary approach is considered.

11:00 am is a multi-layered project, that provokes the reader and viewer to question the meaning of a story. It discusses the position of a photographer when creating new work. It considers one’s perception of another’s life, the continuous projection that people pursue when meeting someone new.

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