On-the-go Photography

The collection revolves around locations in Belgium and explores a diverse range of scenes that include streets, landscapes, architecture, and nature.

The monochromatic scenes document sightings of eye-catching real-life environments, and preserve the visual memories of a human wanderer, exiled from his homeland, on a quest propelled by regular walks.

These photographs were captured during walks through the streets and alleyways of Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels regions. The photographic process was stretched in duration to six years, 2017-2018 and 2021-2022, tied up by a gap of two blank years in-between.

In 2020, traveling on foot became a grounding habit following the outbreak of a global pandemic. Therefore, the artist resumed his leisure activity, and morphed it into a therapeutic mobile quest.

A minimalist technical plan was adopted to reduce the lingering fear of losing electronic tools — stolen, damaged, or malfunctioning — and to fuel a quest progressing at the rhythm of both frequent and abrupt moves around a terrestrial territory seen as the land of adoption and refuge.

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