ABUSE is final !

May 8, 2009 My photography

As I mentioned a few times on this blog, I was working on a project which I named ‘ABUSE’. Well, ABUSE is Final! For me it is only the finalisation of a project. I had the opportunity to work with fantastic people that gave me the best they could in conveying complex, intimate emotions and feelings. Thank [...]


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Portfolio viewing @ FoMu

April 29, 2009 Inspiration

Yesterday was D-day. After working for months on my ABUSE project I was ready to show it to a sort of independent jury (photographer, responsible of FoMu, Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen, CvB) at FoMu who organised this portfolio viewing. Every half an hour another photografer showing off his or her work and receiving feedback. A special feeling I can [...]


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Erwin Olaf Rocks

April 29, 2009 Inspiration

Last Thursday Erwin Olaf was at FoMu giving a lecture on his photography throughout his almost 30 year carreer. I didn’t have a ticket to get in but gave it a shot. I was lucky. Some no shows and Stijn Huyghe’s 2€ (thanks mate) allowed me to get in. It was fantastic to see (and hear) [...]


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Aero 2009, Barcelona and new photo shoots

April 28, 2009 Inspiration

It’s been a while since I posted something on the blog. And there is reason for it. My project on ABUSE took almost all of my free time. April 1st I headed for AERO 2009 in Friedrichshafen followed by some rest giving holidays in Spain.     The ‘ABUSE’ project is coming to its end. I couldn’t shoot [...]


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Erwin Olaf

March 17, 2009 Inspiration

Last Sunday I took the wife and kids to visit Erwin Olaf’s expo (till 07/06/2009) at the fotomuseum in Antwerp. Great stuff! With over 80 large prints the variety in his work is show (1984-2009). Many of the picture’s are provoking and let you reflect on the subject matter. These same, provoking,  pictures are also very [...]


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It takes two to Tango.

February 27, 2009 My photography

It has been a while that I wanted to do something with dance. The Tango in particular because it is so beautiful, stylish, passionate and sensual.  I found my model Ludwika via Model Mayhem. Here model profile attracted me because of the strong pictures she has in here portfolio and – of course – here interest in dance. Because [...]


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Interesting, very strong or really beautiful?

February 19, 2009 Inspiration

I was paging through Marcel Van der Vlugt‘s book ‘Beauty and other secrets’ because I remembered some special portraits of him and wanted to refresh my mind. In his book Marcel quoted a few lines that made me thing about my personal project and some reactions I received. Marcel writes : “People often judge your [...]


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Les Rencontres d’Arles 2009, not yet but …

February 9, 2009 Inspiration

Five months till the next Rencontres d’Arles. This event is one of my great moments of the year. 2008 was curated by Christian Lacroix. He did a great job, and managed to get some inspiring, amazing, worth to visit expositions.  My wife and I started our visit to Avedon‘s ‘Mr and Mrs Comfort’. These picture’s (Avedon made [...]


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Charlotte

January 15, 2009 My photography

The last two weeks of December were simply fantastic. First I had the opportunity to photograph Charlotte in here house. It was a very rewarding photo shoot. I went to Charlotte with a certain concept in my head (something like ‘Le matin’ a book of Henk Van Cauwenbergh) but came home with stronger, more emotional and sensual [...]


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Inspiration

January 15, 2009 Inspiration

While cleaning up a bit I stumbled on ‘House of orange‘ Issue 1 2008, a magazine on Photography, beauty, hair and makeup. A great and very inspiring magazine. Until now this is the only issue that was published. Nice layout and great inspiring pictures. I think magazines are great to get idea’s and stay aware of the [...]


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