Juul Hondius

The coasts of northwestern Europe once consisted of vast estuary zones where land and sea, salt and fresh water met. The tide washed through creeks between tidal forests. The original estuary landscapes hardly exist anymore because man found the ideal living conditions there, which meant that nature had to make way for dikes, cities, industry and new agricultural lands.

I immerse myself in the mud of the last of these places and I try to capture the essence of these places. A document of a disappearing paradise.