Otto Kaan

edrandom.com combines a random English word with a random place on earth, using Google Streetview.

In collaboration with Philip Schuette, Sascha Landshoff and Frank Stolk

The series Neutral Moresnet documents the former neutral territory with the same name through polaroids taken from its fifty-one remaining border poles.

In the 1860s the Dutch Government decided to build a new railway line right through the heart of Amsterdam's harbour. The railway bridges across the passages alongside the new Central Station were later decorated with twenty-two large stone lions. Only three decades after the bridges were completed, the lions were already removed and seemed to have vanished, until they reoccurred some decades later in city parks and private back yards.

Blumensee is a 3,84 x 2,65 m photowallpaper cut into sixty-four equal sized parts which were folded and bound into a grey linen hardcover book. 

24,5 x 33 cm, edition of one

4990photo is a research on the (usually undesirable) irregularities that appear while scanning negatives or slides. Instead of deleting them with the help of Photoshop's spot healing brush tool we decided to honour them, by isolating and enlarging them. Subsequently we categorized them, according to the different shapes and constellations in which they appeared.

The name rhododendron derives from the ancient Greek words for flower (rhodon) and tree (dendron). The series Rhodondendron is the result of various attempts to create such flowertrees.