The Distance of Looking
A rephotographed 1980 observation deck image by Allan Smessaert—reseen through a Leica Q3 43—as a meditation on vantage, recursion, and the quiet persistence of human curiosity across time.
What strikes me first is not the subject, but the distance—the quiet, almost reverential distance this image insists upon. The figures are small, nearly swallowed by the geometry of the observation d…
