"In a way, my act of drawing is photography. I take photographs with my hand," says Marcel van Eeden. "After spending the last 25 years working intensively with photographs, studying them so that I could copy them, I got the urge to mechanically reproduce the world itself. Just like the people whose photographs I use did. And since I took a lot of photographs in my younger years, it wasn't difficult to start again, with an old Leica analog camera, i.e. with the technology from back then." "Of course I work with the photographs in the 'now', but that's what I've always done with the series I've made. I looked for motifs in the cities I worked in, for events that were current, and I built my series on these narratives. The difference is that in the drawings I use old photographs to 'tell' this story. And in the photography, I work with what can be seen now in everyday life". In the photographs, Marcel van Eeden is 'a fly on the wall', he captures everyday situations. We encounter them again and again in passing. People waiting in an airport lounge (shot from a low angle), a sidewalk in an American street, old display cases in a library (shot unceremoniously from the side), customers in silhouette in a Chinese restaurant, a glimpse of a petrol station at night, urinals in a men's toilet, a sideways glance at an escalator in a train station after dark.

For the photographic technique see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_printing