The closer to a building, the clearer the details.
But then you miss the contours. PANURBANA shows both.
I photograph buildings and I call that photo collection Panurbana.
PAN stands for Panorama and Urbana for city.
I photograph the buildings from a fixed point of view and take different photos.
After developing the film, I glue the photos together and create a collage. A Panurbana.
I experiment and explore time, space within the photo.
Every Thursday morning at 7 am a new Panurbana is online and can be seen
on social media such as: Instagram, youtube, flickr and my website: www.panurbana.nl
Marc Rietdijk (05-08-1968, Amsterdam) is a photographer en filmmaker.
Marc is a storyteller and he does that with images.
Two or three-dimensional and moving or not. Images that encourage you to look into what you can get lost in, and leave space to the imagination.
His photography is a quest: How much image do you need? When does viewing change to seeing? And seeing and experiencing and imagining?
see more: www.marcrietdijkfotografie.nl
I capture buildings from my childhood in parts,
and stick them together to rebuild the city.
This is my Amsterdam: photos of buildings that are special to me and which I am curious about and the origin or history.
During the Corona epidemic lockdown in February 2020, I started photographing the deserted streets and canals of Amsterdam.
Every week I posted a photo collage or 'Panurbana' on my website and on social media.
As a child I was fascinated by old photos of Amsterdam. In the library I borrowed the books of pioneer photographers as B.F. Eilders, G.H. Breitner and J.Olie. On my bike I went to check whether the buildings of their photo's still existed.
Jacob Olie
Warmoegracht 1894
Raadhuisstraat 2021
In the photos of the pioneer photographers, time stands still and fragments of Amsterdam
look the same as 100 years ago: the buildings, the people on the street, the horse-drawn trams and handcarts.
In my Panurbana's time is frozen again, while Amsterdam is moving on.
What will the city look like in 100 years,
when cars and trams have disappeared from the streets and the sea level has risen?
The Panurbana Atlas
On October 27, 2025, Amsterdam will be 750 years old.
A good reason to bundle the Panurbana collages into an atlas.
"The Panurbana Atlas of Amsterdam".
An architectural journey through the city's past and present.
Panurbana history
I made my first panoramic photos (around 1988) while studying sculpture at
the art academy. On holiday in France I wanted to photograph an old Romanesque church.
It was important to photograph the church in its entirety, but also capture the details of the apostles around the front door. By taking several photos and then gluing them back together in a collage, I had captured the entire church, but because of the high resolution i was also able to study the details.
collage technique
Panurbana's are shot analogously.
With an old Nikkormat FN an almost completely mechanical camera.
The camera has a small light leak, causing the film to be slightly overexposed.
This gives a distinct signature to the Panurbana's and makes the collages unique.
I develop the film myself, like an old alchemist.
It is still exciting whether the film comes out of the developing tank
properly exposed. The photos don't quite fit together because of
the fixed 50mm lens and shifting perspective.
Our brain corrects our eyes for the perspective errors.
So that a new illusion of a building is created.
Panurbana ART puzzle
In honor of the 10th Panurbana, panorama video, a special ART Puzzle of 500 pieces has been made.
Now for sale Panurbana, Westertoren
Sent an email for: numbers of puzzle pieces an prizes
