Toevallig Landschap
Commissioned by Atelier Fryslân, Leeuwarden.

Inhabitants and users of the Frisian landscape were asked for they're favourite spots. Spots they liked or disliked. These places were photographed and exhibited on a variety of locations in Friesland. At the end of the commission a book with the title "Toevallig Landschap" was published, a collection of both stories and photographs.

Peter Delpeut / Kites and bicycles

On a sunny but windy day in June, I rode my bicycle from Amsterdam to the Oerol Festival. Coming from the Frisian polders I took the sea dike for the final leg to Harlingen. A great and compelling experience – the wide Wadden mud flats at my left, the grassy dike under a sky wild with clouds at my right. The sea breeze pushed me against the concrete. It was as if I was on a cycling track’s sloping runway, pedaling full force to the finish.
Less than a year later, I clearly recalled this experience when visual artist Gerco de Ruijter asked me to name my favorite Frisian landscape. Read more>

About the book (in dutch)>