30.08.2025 @ Nieuwpoort.be, part of the ongoing project :
‘Seaside Rendez-vous’
As the Queen song suggests, this photo project might seem to evoke the light-heartedness and playfulness of a coastline as we have always known it: familiar, warm, and almost carefree. But that is not the case. In these images, that world is suddenly empty, as if humanity has vanished from one day to the next. The familiar atmosphere is disrupted for unknown reasons, and what was once cheerful and lively now appears fragile, at times oppressive, and almost surreal.
The photographs were taken in contemporary reality, but by removing any human presence and framing the landscape in a way that renders the familiar strange, a dreamlike experience emerges. These are imagined places that raise questions about what remains when the world we know suddenly no longer feels so familiar.
The result invites reflection: a moment of stillness in which the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur. Here, the familiar and the unreal meet, offering a new perspective on the coastline as we think we know it — or as it might one day change.
Have we treated our environment too lightly?
