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MIRAGE is a collection of street-photographs. The photos were taken on walks through the city and represent the way I experienced the world around me when I was in a burn-out. Walking became a way for me to calm my mind and get out of my head, but also confronted me with the distance I felt to the people passing me by on the street. The song ‘defiler’ by Stromae helped me to make sense of this time in my life, and served as artistic source for my thesis. It made me aware of the fleetingness of my daily life and how a modern individualistic consumption society - in which images are ever-present - encourages us to constantly re-present ourselves, rather than to find ways to truly relate. It became a reflection on the expectations I put on myself and a deeper study into image culture in general. How does the presence of images distort our perception of reality? And how do we measure our own abilities against this mirage?

The book incorporates prysm sheets from old LCD screens as transparent pages, representing this distortion over the street photo's of people anonymously going about their daily life.