I am 49 years old, I am Belgian and a self-made photographer.
As far as I remember, I always hated having my portrait-photo taken. Photos of me as a child show a kid crying and running away from the camera.
The film equipment of the time, requiring great precision from its photographer (my father) before taking the photo, did not easily allow one to “shoot” in all directions, thinking that there would be quite a successful one. The proof is that the majority of photos representing me show me in a bad light.
Interested in art in general, I found my photographic path, when I discovered and accepted that immortalizing faces, landscapes, family celebrations, moments of life, for which I had developed a kind of non-love, brought me absolutely nothing satisfying except, perhaps, a photo to archive among all the others of the genre.
What I want, what I desire, is to take another look, deep down, at what surrounds me. It is to bring to the foreground what is, a priori, secondary, insipid, uninteresting, non-existent, hidden, unknown.
Through my background as an industrial engineer, I have a formatted, calculated, rigorous approach of life. My passion for photography, macro in particular, allows me to escape the norms, rules, standards and obligations of society. It escapes me.
I'm actually very focused and interested by the effects of the lights on objects and matter and what new vision appears then. (Diffraction, glow, blur, etc...) and by the painting. I've often thought that painting and photography were a kind of twin in the world of art. Taking a picture of a painting or working on a photography like painting is maybe quite the same or having a similar effect on me...touching the matter....
My desire is to go “to the heart of things” and photograph the unspeakable.
