Room Portraits

Menno Aden

Menno Aden is specialized in architecture and spaces. His photographs are by and large unpopulated. And yet the works of the series Room Portraits can be read as portraits of the people living in the rooms photographed. They depict the ordering of rooms from unusual perspectives and look as though someone had removed the ceiling to photograph the inside – the allusions here are to doll houses and, at the same time, to surveillance. They consist of up to a hundred individual photographs made with the help of a tripod and then assembled digitally. Wilhelm von Werthern, Le Monde diplomatique