Wyne Veen is a still life photographer from Amsterdam who appreciates the beauty of every day life.
Why do you spend so much time in bugetstores?
Because I appreciate the cheap factory effort that has been put into the products. The objects smell, have sharp edges, aren't suited for their function or are just extremely useless in general, they have ugly colors and you can break them in a split-second. All of this makes them quite tragic but also absurd and funny. The products are never really original, always some half baked reproduction of an existing product from a big(ger) brand. Therefore they reflect a small amount of pretence but not a very credible one.
These objects are so poorly produced they often become total failures. Even though these are mass products, their little or huge flaws tell you a lot about the ideas of the people involved in the production process, and that adds something personal. I go to Germany to find the nicest pieces and they make me very happy. The right kind of failure can be so precious. It shows the passing of time and effort, while something flawless only shows you that it is finished.
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