This portfolio brings together 30 years of my photographic work. A space where ecology, history, and phenomenology intersect through images.
Work, both new and from earlier years, is added regularly
© All photographs © Marten Slothouwer.
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the intimacy of extinction
the extinction of intimacy
A work of traces, proximity and experience in a time of ecological fragmentation.
What is still known when all is seen?
Information and fantasy are opposing forces.
From The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
It ends here. Closer I won’t get.
Sumatran rhino track
2013
Hoorn, Berlin, Texel, Aceh, 2012 - 2025
Sumatra, 2012, 2025
Texel, 2026
Sumatra 2022-2025
Berlin 2025
Sumatra, 2025
de zeekaap.
Used for maritime navigation, built in 1854
2022
Lampung 2023
Italy 2022
Sumatra, 2017
Sumatra, 2006, 2024
France, 2025
Aceh 2018, 2019
Sumatra, 2012,2024
Sumatra, 2023, 2024
Aceh 2002
SUMATRA BLUES
Sumatra, 2025
Sumatra 2024
East Java, 1999
Where the last Javan tiger was seen in the 1980’
Tillmans doesn’t just reject hierarchy—he exposes it as something constructed by display systems and habits of attention, then replaces it with a more contingent field of relations where value is unstable, shifting, and distributed rather than fixed.