Cityscapes
In Paramaribo, the main city of Suriname,
Jacquie Maria Wessels photographed city scenes, dominated by the typically Surinamese wall paintings. This carefully composed photo series is sometimes alienating and surreal. The works show how residents of the city appropriate the space and capture a cultural and economic image of time in Paramaribo. The hand-painted advertisements contain hyper-realistic images of, among other things, tools, soup cans, oatmeal, sausages and incentives such as 'Do your best at school' .....
This series was on show in the Photo Route Bijlmer, an outdoor exhibition with 50 large format photographs in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost and in a solo exhibition at the Surinamese Museum in Paramaribo.
The analogue photographed series 'Cityscapes' is published in the Photo Book ‘Cityscapes + Birdmen’ by Voetnoot publishers in Antwerp Belgium and internationally by Idea Books. ISBN 978-90-78068-662 The Book won two final awards in the international book awards (USA) in 2011.
