'Well, she did pick the prettiest pictures', says Daniëlle Roman (25), as she sees the 12 picture frames. Each photo shows two persons posing. One of them is Daniëlle Roman. 'I don't really know what to make of this, these are my pictures'.

According to Karlijn Budel this could be the reaction of Daniëlle Roman after seeing her graduation work 'Frederik, Daniëlle, Karlijn en Marleen'. It consists of a research that started with a contribution to the NRC.NEXT newspaper section 'klik@nrcnext.nl'. Karlijn submitted a photo and caption from an existing flickr profile. She pretended to be Frederik Vandaele. Subsequently the photo was printed by the newspaper. Fascinated by the growing importance of sharing individual expressions on the internet, Karlijn collected information about four individuals. She used this data as a starting point for the design of four characters, part reality, part fiction: Frederik Vandaele, Daniëlle Roman, Karlijn Budel en Marleen Luijt. The collected data combined with the generated content resulted in four books in which the characters are presented. The fluidity of the internet is paused for a moment and concentrated to a story where fact and fiction merge.