Nicolas Becquet is a journalist and head of digital development for a business media, based in Brussels. For more than 12 years, as a digital lead and teacher of digital journalism, he has been experimenting with new forms of digital...
Read MoreNicolas Becquet is a journalist and head of digital development for a business media, based in Brussels. For more than 12 years, as a digital lead and teacher of digital journalism, he has been experimenting with new forms of digital storytelling in the service of news.
Passionate about images and photography, he interrogates his environment with his drone. His images taken vertically create unusual, disconcerting and questioning pictures of the explored territories.
The work on forms and the play on materials and lights generate abstract images, which are similar to painting. The aim here is to break with the traditional representations of landscapes seen from the sky.
Whether it is over the sea, the beach, the countryside, a river, a forest, a city or an industrial site, Nicolas Becquet is constantly looking for new perspectives, those that create astonishment in the viewer and make him question his perception of the world around him. The reference points are shaken up and lead to a questioning of the meaning of the image.
His latest series, published in Sabato magazine, questions both the beauty and the extreme fragility of the Semois, a river that meanders between France and Belgium. Almost dry this summer, it was dangerously overflowing a year earlier. A few dozen kilometres further north, the Vesdre River also overflowed, creating deadly floods. A disaster that Nicolas Becquet covered for his media. As a striking contrast, the low water level of the Semois during the summer of 2022 has magnified the dance of the coloured algae. A reality as graphically beautiful as it is ecologically challenging.
The work on shapes and the play on materials and lights generate abstract images, which are similar to painting. The aim here is to break with traditional representations of landscapes seen from the sky.
The pictorial strength of the image becomes the starting point for a broader questioning. The main purpose of his work is to take a step-up to offer new, picturesque and challenging points of view.
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