Introduction
Red Roses Yellow Rain are pictures of interiors taken on the Chinese country side in a number of provinces, many along the utmost borders of China. The pictures are taken between 2005-2010.
The original name of the project was Enchanted Spaces - a series of interiors taken in The Netherlands, Russia, China and Japan. The main topic is the need and the feeling of having a 'Home'. Home is more then 4 walls and a roof and a couple of pieces of furniture. Home is the place where you still can be yourselves - the place where you can live out your dreams. The need for a Home is a universal need, shared with people from many different cultural backgrounds. I this way these pictures reach much further then the borders of China.
'Red Roses Yellow Rain' is available as a book published by Hatje Cantz, Germany 2011.This publication was in conjunction with an exhibition with the same titel in Huis Marseille, Museum of Photography - Amsterdam Spring 2011. This exhibition contains 32 pictures of which 15 in size 150x150 cm. The exhibition is mend to travel.
