ARTIST STATEMENT
Photography begins where habitual vision ends.
My work explores the limits of perception through the possibilities of photography. Rather than documenting the world, I search for those rare moments in which reality briefly reveals unexpected relationships—configurations that remain unnoticed until they are isolated within the photographic frame. Working exclusively with found situations, I approach photography as an act of discovery rather than description. The camera is not used to confirm what is already visible, but to uncover the latent structures embedded within the everyday landscape. My images emerge from careful observation, revealing places where architecture, nature, history and human intervention converge in ways that quietly unsettle our habitual ways of seeing. Across my projects, the landscape functions not as a subject in itself, but as a cultural and perceptual construct. Whether exploring national identity, borders, authenticity, ecological transformation or the coastal environment, each body of work investigates how places are imagined, experienced and understood through vision. The photographs do not offer explanations; they create moments of uncertainty in which the familiar becomes strange and the visible reveals what usually remains concealed. Underlying this practice is the conviction that photography does not merely represent reality—it transforms our capacity to perceive it. Each image invites a slower, more attentive form of looking, suggesting that the world is always more complex, ambiguous and constructed than our everyday vision allows us to see.
Photography, therefore, is not a means of recording the visible. It is a way of making visible the limits of our seeing.
CURRENT TOPICS
BORDERLINE
HANGAR PHOTO ART has published (May 2026) the BORDERLINE project as an online exhibition on their website.
Earlier in 2020, they exhibited this project in their gallery. It can now be experienced once again.
As a result, I have been listed as one of their Supported Artists.
Link to HANGAR
“SEASIDE RENDEZ-VOUS”
(working title, work in progress)
30.08.2025 @ Nieuwpoort.be, part of the ongoing project :
As the Queen song suggests, this photographic 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, 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?
