Clouds Revealed

• Photographer
  Hilde Maassen
• Agency / Studio
  Hilde Maassen Photography
• Technical Info
  I Make A Bump Map Of The Image That Are Toyobo Printed Or 3d Printed As Clay Vases.
• Photo Date
  2020-2023

Clouds are changing, they move higher in the atmosphere and can even disappear completely if the CO2 content is too high, recent research shows. Clouds, and therefor the weather, have been manipulated and fabricated since the start of the industrial revolution. This project investigates to what extent it is possible to recreate the information captured in the flat photo. Revealing a hidden spatial experience of the photo. An experimental projedt that started in 2019 and now consists of various manifestations such as Toyobo prints, 3D-printed clay vases, sound, photos and objects.

Hilde Maassen knew she wanted to study art from the age of ten. When she discovered photography, at eleven, the semi-automated process that offers an endless array of possibilities to capture and adapt transform or manipulate everyday reality, she was addicted. After 25 years as a photographer and educator, she decided to pursue a master's degree to figure out what she wanted to do for the next 25 years. She rediscovered the joy of experimental photography. In 2021, she graduated cum laude with a project that continues to evolve, "Clouds Revealed, in Dialogue with the Photographic Medium."