Updates

- If you are passing by... have a look (Albertine square, Brussels)

glub

- Me working:

Some windows

During summer, every day, from July 15th, I'll be posting one new image in the "somewhere" collection. Maybe it'll help cooling your computer. See you in a moment!

best view with  sunglasses removed

Meanwhile, a belgian galery in Brussels, PGA, contribute to the Summer of Photography festival by exhibing huge prints mounted on several cubes, downtown, 'til August. One of them is showing pictures from here.

Newsletter Summer 08

News for you

Always a pleasure to serve!

Peep Show

pola found enexpectably on the rooftop, certainly gone by the winds

On that photoshooting technicaly based upon use of very long lenses, I really enjoyed playing with those walkies talkies, even when the model was standing as close as 3 meters away. I think I need a megaphone. And a folding chair near the camera. That would be the photography as I signed up for.

Enterprise, do you read me? Beam me up! Now!

As first, this serie was meant as a tribute to Antonioni's Blow Up, but in its way through the lens, it transformed itself into Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. I don't mind. Eventually I named those pictures Peep Show. 'Like how it sounds.

An other pola that winds spared to take away

Traffic Out!

Well it was about time.
Thanks again to my friend Kristo Buel for his paintings.
Kristo in TrafficKristo in Traffic

Cheers!

cheers
On a rainy afternoon, I decided to pay a visit to the quiet world of Still Life, where I happened to meet a bunch of
Still Friends.

Flowers

early white flower
Anyway!

Pylône Magazine.

At last there will be things to read around my pictures!

pylone flyerpylone flyer
April 10th @ l'Archiduc, in Brussels. Any dead drunk person knows where it stands.

bis repetto

Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot
I had the chance to compete for an old dance shoes brand's campaign, few weeks ago. Benjamin Adida, the art director for that project came with the idea to create a dance studio with pink ribbons, which is the brand logo of Repetto. We were all very excited about the concept and Christian Marguerie, my agent in Paris decided to produce one image selected from the lay out board. Then Jeremy Marchant, best retouching guy in town, worked on it.

Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot
Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot
Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot
Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot

We really wanted to please our potential client, so we even hired a real dancer, who is a former David Hamilton's model (tough to get rid of the blurring pink touch in those circumstances).
Despite everything, we didn't win the campaign.
Inge's stretching out her legs before being shot

Whatever!

Snow over spring.

flower from sketchbook

I've just finished a fashion shooting for a magazine, showing spring/summer collections, outdoor, snow falling on the model. My job is non sens.

Some good prose

I certainly regret not to understand portuguese. I'm quite envious of the website name. I totally love it.

Not Going Anywhere

not going anywhere

Just in time !

Happy everything to you

Best SPAM of the week:

"impale beltsville embargoes commiserate gusto coxcomb human baklava lourdes pl
embargoes backgammon impale fran dumpty northeastern deathward impale dumpty backgammon carla midwives fiend basilisk inaugural horse fran embargoes catchword endpoint
emblem despondent northeastern congest northeastern chronography human baklava plagiarism savoyard
commiserate ruinous fortin hirsute"

It's really inspiring.

eep sending, please

Where am I?

Paris
(so you should reach me at this phone number 06 857 231 09)

Classified ad

I'm looking for artists (musicians, painters, photographers, ...) who were officialy established and seen as artists and who have quited their art to turn themself into something completely different. Can be also in an other artistic activity. If you recognize yourself, I would like to take your portrait and ad it in a personal project serie.
Just contact me and drop few line about you. Obviously possible places where the portrait could take place for the moment are Paris and Brussels.
Looking forward to read from you.

Where is my mind?

what have I done with myself since last post? Well...

giotto
I've shot some sets I've builded with my fellow assistant, featuring models and clothes. Eventualy, some tv guys from the national channel came to tape the session, but I managed to rolled some footage by myself with a digital camera smaller than a cigarettes box. Indeed, the film is quite foggy.
Here is this youtube masterpiece:


whatif
Then, I had a walk in the gardens of a big grey house for a dynamic ad agency from Gent, WATF. Very gentle job.

music fund
Later on, I was found and caught by the automatic shutter button of the camera, playing a quite massive guitar (I know, that's a cello) for Air (it's an ad agency in Brussels and Paris).

museum
Then I visited Charleroi's Photo Museum and made the portrait of Hana Jakrlova, Czech photographer. Very redundant situation.

Personal com

In less than 12 days 17 hours and 12 minutes, I'll marry this butterfly that caught me in her fairy net some years ago. Happy to be busy preparing everything.

my fairy sweet butterfly

communication blip - August newsletter

newsletter August 2007

thank you for your attention!

rhesus - album artwork & music video

rhesus next album's release: September 24th. Meanwhile, have a look at the artwork or at the music video.

Pix from the flick's set:
hey darling making of
hey darling making ofhey darling making of

Some documentary footages from rhesus' website about the artwork photoshoot:
fortune teller said making of
fortune teller said making of
fortune teller said making of

Stray Prints

Looks like I've been very much into aquatic mood recently. Made this serie with Jeremy Marchant's help for the retouching part.
stray prints polaroids
stray prints bonus

Petits Riens

Les Petits Riens is some kind of charitable society in Belgium, collecting used clothes and selling second hand. Organizing a defile in purpose of raising funds, they ask every year to several renowned fashion designers to create a collectible silhouette, that will be sold by auction. Here is the 2007 collections.

Good Vibration

Some print communication projects for the National Orchestra of Belgium. Good Vibration (Gelucks Suykens and Partners agency - media: print and posters). Couldn't drown the violin. I'm too sentimental.

moonb
moonb

Wet paint

Long after last post or update on this website, I'm proud to give you its new lay out, wise and sharp, designed by brilliant webdesigner Colin O'Brien. I bow respectfully.

IFM (archive)

Paris, Monday 26 of february, the French Institution for Fashion will release its yearly catalogue. As a young photographer, it's quite intimidating to be asked by them to work on the images that will fill most of its pages. Because it's an impressive institution. Because the previous releases were high artistic fashionstyle demonstrations. And because, it's a 'carte blanche' assignment.

First, I though, they dialed a wrong number. Then I started to plan something that worths the circumstances. I digged in my drawings notepads, searching for long series. I wanted to tell a precise and only story through those eleven collections from eleven different designers. That means at least 44 images.

3 weeks later, I was at the edge of an abyss of desillusion. After the shooting took place, I was totally glued in it.

The catalogue has been set up by some striking talented and inspired graphic designers, Petra and Simon, guided by uncompromised search for perfection. I had never seen before any layout fitting so perfectly my pictures. Even the paper smells great thanks to them.

I was planning silly situations and impossible set designs. I would have failed without the help and advices of priceless collaborators. Thanks to Pascal, who assisted me. I mean, who bore me till the end. Thanks to Maja who builded sets with her heart. Thanks to Mathieu for his magic brushes and glosses. Thanks to Jennifer for her patience. Thanks to Sebastien who made sure anyone didn’t freeze to death and fed all of us. Thanks to Melody who helped every one and kept smiling. Thanks to Helene for her strange beauty. Thanks to Claudia for having made it happened. And thanks to my beloved wife to have endure so far my bad mood temper mixed with anxiety dysfunctional behaviors.