The world is complex and so are we; people with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, faiths, values, hurts and desires. There is so much more than one perspective and also so much more than one layer. Cities are the epicentre of this (cultural) complexity. 

Can you see me? is my search for the aesthetic layering and poetry of cities and their inhabitants. Especially the density and super-diversity of cities like Berlin and Antwerp continue to fascinate and inspire me. Nowhere does the diverse din of people, languages, cultures, architecture... echo louder. Nowhere do complexity and beauty clash harder and together form a new aesthetic. 

how beautiful can complexity be?

In this series of street photography, the focus is sometimes on the compositional nature of colours, sometimes on the poetry of a dirty train window. Both form a layer or detail of a bigger picture. In other images, it is the reflection of passers-by merging with a model on a billboard or urban architecture reflecting a reflection of its inhabitants back to its lens.

How beautiful can complex be? How do you tell about life in a city and the (reflected) individual story of its inhabitants and at the same time maintain the right distance and discretion? These questions were part of the basis of this photographic quest.

The photographs are not staged and image editing is limited to pure image development. Thus, they are not image montages made after the fact. The layered pictures are carefully observed and photographed moments of the complexity of everyday city life.

Can you see me? is possible because of the collaboration with Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen: fotografiecircuit.be

Prints for sale: exhibition Can You See Me?
5 certified prints of each photograph are available. Framed and printed as in the exhibition.
Frames: dark grey aluminium with artglass (anti-reflective glass).
Prints: Archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Edition Etching Rag 310g.
Prices:
Size 40x60cm: 350,- euro
Size 30x45cm: 210,- euro.
Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in purchasing a print. A different print size is also possible with a customised price. 

Further exhibition locations and dates

2023 - 2025
7.11 - 1.12.2023 De Peperfabriek -Breughelstraat 31, 2018 Antwerpen
6.12 - 8.1.2024 CC Ter Dilft Bornem
11.1 - 2.2.2024 CC `t Vondel Halle
7.2 - 4.3.2024 GC de Zandloper Wemmel
6.3 - 25.3.2024 CC De Ploter Ternat
29.3 - 30.4.2024 CC Zwanenberg Heist-op-den-Berg
3.5 - 5.6.2024 CC Neeroeteren Maaseik
7.6 - 4.9.2024 Cultuurhuis Casino Houthalen-Helchteren
6.9 - 9.10.2024 CC Palethe Pelt
14.10 - 7.11.2024 CC Evergem-Stroming Evergem
11.11 - 5.12.2024 CC Gildhof Tielt
9.12 - 9.1.2025 Cultuurhuis De Gulden Zonne Hooglede
13.1 - 6.2.2025 CC De Brouckere Torhout
10.2 - 13.3.2025 CC Het Perron Ieper
17.3 - 3.4.2025 CC De Steiger Menen
7.4 - 8.5.2025 Cultuurhuis Merelbeke
13.5 - 6.6.2025 CC `t Aambeeld Aartselaar

Previous exhibitions

2019 solo exhibition: en passant
De Heerlyckheid (wineshop & gallery), Antwerp

2018 group exhibition: #city renaissance / Art in the city
Wiels Gallery, Brussels