Ron Weijers pictures

an overview of recent work

As a photographer Weijers targets in on "catching" an objective, but also an alternative vision. Photographic project like "Throw away your TV!",

"It's a stars & stripes circus out there", Get Connected with Phonarchy", Spray-com", Orange Juice - LA drive-by shooting", "Target rush-hour" and

"Fixx the game", reveal a deeper meaning by concept and reflect his vision on social and political issues and discussions from this time.

His photographic work is shown in galleries within the Netherlands, Germany and the United States.

His photographic visions on New York are currently used for the development of several publications like "Manhattan Transfer" and the series

of six booklets called "Alter Vision".

Photographic work from Weijers is available through: 10dence Gallery - Schiedam, Galerie LeCocon - Hamburg, Germany, Galerie Ooster-Laren - Laren

and Hammerstein Collection at www.hammersteincollection.nl. (check also under menu: contact information)

Within this overview of photographic projects we provide links for viewing extensive slideshows belonging to the individual projects

alter vision - NY arti[facts] part I, II, III, IV, V & VI

an alternative photographic impression of New York by Ron Weijers

The Alter Vision series has been developed for publishing. A series of six themed booklets on a variety of

aspects like graffity, architecture, street-art and people have been photographed over a period of seven months

in Manhattan and Brooklyn during 2006. Six publications containing one hundred pictures each. An alternative

impression on the Big Apple. For an extensive slideshow of the photographic content of these publications,

please click on the images below.

for slideshows please click on the individual images

Manhattan Transfer

a fascinating city full of imagination & surprises

zapping into a 1000 pictures rich & alternative photographic impression of New York by Ron Weijers

Introduction - New York - a fascinating city full of imagination & surprises

The wealth of the world has a New York address. Legions of artists, philosophers, businessman, poets, writers, musicians, industrialists, brokers,

movie stars, advertising executives and more, from all over the world created (and still do so) this microcosm of all that New York has become.

Its the story of a great fascinating city and perhaps nowhere else in this world is the essence of being alive more evident than in New York.

A screeching amusement park without a roller coaster. This metaphor was used in more ways than one, for New York’s 24-hour figurative playground.

The ultimate place to recharge your batteries on all the levels of your imagination. New York is one of the few places in the world where one can watch

the night sky lighten and break into streaks of rose that suddenly saturate the heavens, then burst with sunlight that ignites sidewalks and streets that

has not been stolen by high and indescribably ugly buildings. It piles up in buildings on land that is laced with gold.
The images evoked by New York are all tough, aggressive, gritty though alive: tall contentious skyscrapers piercing the sky; cavernous concrete streets

thick with traffic; saturating lights; cabbies making wisecracks out of the sides of their mouths; pedestrians of all colors, races and social stations

elbowing their ways through the teeming mass. Yet despite its stark realities, New York is one of the most romantic cities in the world. Although it has

never possessed the romance of Paris, it has always exuded the thrill of power, money, ambition, and success. For all New Yorkers, from financiers to

actresses, from advertising executives to mobsters, the Big Apple, as it is sometimes called, is the ultimate locale for the American dreamer. New York

City is the largest city in the United States, and has been for almost two hundred years since shortly after birth of the nation. But size is not its only

claim to prominence. It is also the nation’s, and perhaps the world’s, nucleus for business, trade, finance, publishing, communications, theater, music,

and art. Like London, Paris, or Hong Kong, New York is a world capital and not simply the supreme American city.
From its inception, New York has been rocked with troubles over population, unbearable traffic, crime, racial and ethnic conflict, pollution, filth, drugs,

and an inordinately high cost of living. But it remains the greatest of American Dreams, not the City of Light, but the City of Life.