This series captures not just the spectacle of reenactment, but the intimacy within it. The stolen glances, the absorbed gestures, the quiet presence of craft. A woman knits beneath the trees. Two friends share apples on a bench. A prisoner reaches through the bars of a wooden cage. These aren’t performances; they’re moments suspended in time.
In July 2025, I immersed myself in the Leidse Rembrandtdagen, where the streets of Leiden’s Pieters and Academiewijk transformed into a living painting. For two days, hundreds of volunteers revived the spirit of the 1600s, dressed in hand-sewn garments, surrounded by historical props, spinning wool, selling vegetables, and performing fragments of a forgotten daily life.
“Echoes of the 1600s” is a visual tribute to the humanity behind the history: the textures, the labour, the humour, and the care. Every frame invites the viewer not only to observe, but to feel the living thread between past and present.
