Author Archives: rverbunt

A few years back, Rob saw a self-portrait of me and in his head, the thought of possible collaboration was born. A sudden recognition of similar emotion and atmosphere in my photography made him curious and lit. “As if there was someone doing exactly the same thing, but in a female form” he recalled. As I love creative collaboration and mirroring ideas, I jumped into his idea of collaborating with no hesitation. With no expectation and no specific subject at […]

This month, June 2021, we are heading South, to the Belgian-French border, to start our anticipated documentary on The Dream Vehicle. As we started out photographing for the project on the brink of 2019, shedding light on personal topics about our time and place in the world, about loss and the human drive, we kept on deepening our concept and looked into additional ways of communicating the story. So, after we started to combine poetry and prose with our photographic […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HL_nH2IjkQ Somewhere in a small village on the border between Belgium and The Netherlands we ended up in a narrow tunnel. When we posed for a photograph in that tunnel and reviewed it, we saw two human bullets standing in the barrel of a rifle. This made us write a poem dedicated to our project, saying: ‘We stand in the barrel of a rifle. Ready to scatter two lonesome hearts in one shot. Pull the trigger my dear, that we […]

  In The Dream Vehicle we foremost investigate our subject matter with the cameras. Our thoughts on how we want to communicate to our viewers, our cravings for atmospheres that lets us feel that hearty existential punch in the stomach, all comes down to effective imagery.   But does that cover the whole process of getting the story across? As our photographic outcome is poetic in its creation, it instigates many matters to philosophize about, to undergo emotional feelings. Still […]

This month we sent out our first The Dream Vehicle newsletter. In addition to our Instagram account and website, we’d love you to get aboard more and more on the conceptual side of our journey. Because we have a beautiful story to tell you, harvested from a sun and snow beaten road trip: A story of challenges, of sweet and bitter love. Adventures from the road, from the heart, touching the very core of what we call romanticism. Seasoning the […]

  A returning anekdote in the story of our collaboration as Witkowska Verbunt, must be this opening line: That as I came across a portrait of a graduate at The Academy of Photography in Amsterdam, it was as if I was looking at the work of a female version of myself. So I learnt about the existence of Anna Witkowska. I recalled this to her later at an exhibition were we first met.   Despite interest to see if we […]

While photographing and writing for The Dream Vehicle home and abroad since 2019, we felt all this work, our poems as we relate to them often, should be gathered in a book. Our own paper telling of a years long theatrical performance. A story of human effort to sustain, with and without love, together alone, onto adventure. To pull the idea from our heads and start the actual process of making the book, we were in the fine position to […]

As the ice creaks and the white sun burns a hole through the firmament, we are delighted to bring you a good tiding. Today, on Valentines day 2021, we launch our personal project website of The Dream Vehicle: www.thedreamvehicle.com. Next to the trip and our Instagram, this website will be our weekly updated domain of storytelling. And a preparation towards our book. It has been two years since we took off on our quest. The road trip through Benelux with our […]

As winter dreams of 2020 slip into the past, new ones appear. As the heavens powder our heads with fresh snow, we feel one with you. So from the forest where we played today, we like to say: Health and joy for the new year. We realize life is a huge challenge, and responsibility, practically a collection of swords sticking right in your heart from day one. At the same time, it is all a dream. And in dreams there […]

Online publication of The Dream Vehicle by photography platform Photo31: “Photo31 takes you on a virtual journey. Four weeks on the road!  This week’s editor’s pick is long-term project ‘The Dream Vehicle’ by the photography duo Witkowska Verbunt. Which shows that not all cinematic and romantic road trips take place in the USA. With a classic Volvo car, Anna  and Rob started a journey through the Benelux in 2018. To photographically investigate the adult male-female relationship. The journey they undertake […]