International Pillow Fight Day
International Pillow Fight Day
Irene van Nispen Kress
April 26, 2017
"This picture was taken in Amsterdam on International Pillow Fight Day 2017, an event organized every year in cities all around the world, mostly on April 1st.
It was so much fun to see men, women and children from all kinds of cultural backgrounds
fighting with each other using big fluffy pillows. They were laughing and screaming while
the feathers made you sneeze. While I was taking the picture, I was standing in the middle of it all, occasionally being hit on the head with a pillow while protecting my new M10 with my other hand.
It suddenly got me thinking about all the aggression in the world. Here some people were also showing their aggression – but no one could really get hurt.“
It was so much fun to see men, women and children from all kinds of cultural backgrounds
fighting with each other using big fluffy pillows. They were laughing and screaming while
the feathers made you sneeze. While I was taking the picture, I was standing in the middle of it all, occasionally being hit on the head with a pillow while protecting my new M10 with my other hand.
It suddenly got me thinking about all the aggression in the world. Here some people were also showing their aggression – but no one could really get hurt.“
Irene van Nispen Kress+-
After a career working into different fields of media, from being a director at Dutch television to working as a webdesigner, Irene decided to come back to photography, the medium she used to express herself when she was a teenager. Having attended workshops and masterclasses from renown photographers and photo agencies around the world, today she prefers to work on long term social documentary projects. Her work is often complemented with audio files.
Currently she is working on a Silver Stories book. More