Tradities/Traditions
My new photobook 'Traditions', made on assignment for Volkskunde Vlaanderen, is available in the book shop. For more than a year I have been photographing traditions, rituals and celebrations in Belgium. Well known or small-scale, universal or local, old-fashioned or modern, religious or secular, Flemish, Jewish or Turkish, the book 'TRADITIES' shows a wide variety of traditions in Flanders. Here are 5 of the more than 150 photographs published in the book:
Celebration of Saint Anthony in Ingooigem
Purim in Antwerp
Preparation for the Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges
Break during the procession of the Ros Beiaard in Dendermonde
New year's dive in Oostende
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TRADITIES:
Price € 24,95
ISBN 978 90 5826 777 1
178 pages
Davidsfonds Uitgeverij
Lecture ‘Red Journey’ Bornem
On March 10, 2011 I will deliver a lecture about 'Red Journey' at the Cultural Center Ter Dilft in Bornem. Start at 8pm.
Ceuta & Melilla portfolio in Knack
Knack published a portfolio of my Ceuta and Melilla photographs. A slideshow of these pictures can be seen on Knack.be
De Leeswolf
Throughout 2011 the literary magazine 'De Leeswolf' will publish a picture of mine on the cover each month. The series is titled 'Leesplekken' ('Reading Places'), and is about reading in public. Here are the first two editions of the year.
‘Facing Brussels’ goes Japan
The group exhibition 'Facing Brussels' will be exhibited in the gallery of the Flanders Center in Osaka, Japan, from February 14 to 26. 'Facing Brussels', an initiative of photographer's collective Nadaar is a portrait of the Belgian capital, made by 11 Belgian photographers: Eric De Mildt, Tim Dirven, Nick Hannes, Jan Locus, Dieter Telemans, Loic Delvaulx, Marine Dricot, Philippe Herbet, Jimmy Kets, Wim Knapen and Alain Schroeder. In the summer of 2010 Facing Brussels has been exhibited in the Belvue Museum in Brussels.
Go to Nadaar
Blond
The February issue of Goedele magazine features a compilation of photographs I made throughout the last 4 years. Subject: Blond women. I photographed most of them during trips in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia and, more rencently, in Spain. Here are the tearsheets.
Finisterre
'Finisterre: State of the art of the young photography in Belgium": Opening group show at Photo Museum Antwerp next tuesday, February 8, 2011, at 7PM. I participate with 4 works of my series 'Green Line', made in Cyprus last year.
Installation shot of my photographs in the exhibition at the FotoMuseum
Red Journey reprinted
My book 'Red Journey' has been reprinted. The first edition, printed on 1500 copies, was sold out after a year. Another 1000 copies are available again in the bookshops.
Go to PhotoQ
El Puercoespin
The website 'El Puercoespin' has published a series of photographs from 'Red Journey'. Elpuercoespin.com.ar is a new digital magazine on politics, journalism and literature founded by two journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From the site:
"Pasé un año viajando por las quince ex repúblicas soviéticas en busca de rastros del pasado y de signos de transición social. Esta serie, “Red Journey”, descubre las diversas maneras en que los paises de la ex Unión Soviética intentan redefinir sus identidades nacionales después de la desintegración del imperio comunista. Muestra una región de contrastes, de extrema riqueza y descorazonadora pobreza, renovación urbana sin límite que hace aún más visibles los barrios carenciados, nuevo culto a la personalidad de dictadores en una escenografía de gloria perdida."
Go to El Puercoespin