DESCRIPTION
These photographs contain isolated fragments of a road trip taken from the passenger's seat of the car. They capture more than the human eye can perceive: the views are distorted in various ways to infuse a sense of beauty but also the sadness and menace of this fast spinning world. Views from the streets dissolve and shatter. It's about a world more lost than found.
In this series, I strive to collect impressions, sensations and moods while travelling the streets of Europe. By blending the slowness of the landscape with the velocity of the car, by mixing the human constructions with the romantic nature besides the road, I deconstruct the existing topographical landscape and I create a visual poem in which color, movement, time and light become vehicles for the whole spectrum of my thoughts and feelings. It's a deeply personal and subjective exploration, an inner trip to nowhere specific.
AUTHOR
EDUCATION:
- Academy of Fine Arts, Lier, Belgium, 2012-2017
- Masterclass led by John Lambrichts, the Netherlands, 2015-2016
- Various workshops in Belgium and abroad
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- 2e price ‘Fotonale Brugge’, Bruges, Belgium, 2014
- 4 Nominations Fine Art Photography Awards, USA, 2017
- Finalist ‘Graduation Project’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’ Belgium, 2017
- Selection for ‘Le Masterklass’, Paris, France, 2017-2018
SOLO EXPOSITIONS:
- GC ’t Blikveld, Bonheiden, Belgium, 2017
- ‘Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen’, 18 locations, Belgium, 2017-2019
- B&B Capotorto, Permanent exposition, Petriano, Italië, 2016-now
CURATED GROUP EXPOSISIONS:
- ‘Portrait 2018’, CO, USA, 2018
- ‘The intimate portrait’, NC, USA, 2017
- Photoville 2017: ‘The Print Swap’, NY, USA, 2017
- ‘Graduation exposition’, Belgium, 2017
- ‘New Harvest 2’, the Netherlands, 2016
- ‘Photo View 2016’ Belgium, 2016
PUBLICATIONS:
- New Dutch Photography Talent 2018, GUP Magazine, the Netherlands, 2017 + cover
- Photo of the day, Don’t take pictures, USA, 2017
- ‘Life without smartphone’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’, online version, Belgium, 2017
- ‘Pure’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’, paper version, Belgium, 2017
- Catalogue ‘Fotografiecircuit 2016-2019’, Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen, Belgium 2016
- Catalogue ‘PhotoView 2016’, Centrum voor Beeldexpressie, Belgium 2016
- Catalogue ‘Fotonale 2014’, Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Belgium,
