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The basis for Mulder's method was a rough grid that he created on a stylized map of the Netherlands. For each of the 52 junctions he looked at the relevant 'topographic map' on which they lay and subsequently determined the exact central point. This is how he determined his sample of sites in the Netherlands. Mulder criss-crossed the country for weeks, travelling to all the places dictated to him on the grid, and with his tripod-mounted Rolleiflex camera shot photographs to the North, South, East and West of each point. In doing so, he hoped to break down the traditional subjective choices for capturing reality and to generate a true image of the essence of the Netherlands.