Wildness

After High School I planned to study filmmaking and I started a preparatory year for film school. During this year I had my first photography class. I never actually made a photo before and this is when I really discovered all the possibilities of this art. The viewer can dwell longer in the picture, and with photography you can test, experience more, whether through ideas or the medium itself. After some early works in black and white I passed very quickly to colour pictures. Black and white was no longer enough, I needed more information. It's as if we were just happy to create sculptures in 2 dimensions when it is possible to make them in 3. I am not completely against the black and white but if it has no clear purpose in the image I see it more as a restriction. So I went to photography school in Brussels for 3 years, but I had difficulty finding my style, my field, because in my opinion, Belgian schools often lock photography into one style (reportage, portrait, landscape pictures, etc) but you never really see staged photography as narrative pictures. (Just compare the number of books on landscape photography or reportage, and those on staged photography that were published in Belgium). However during my graduation work I discovered how interesting it was to build an image from a to z, to control all the elements to tell a story, not like a photonovel but rather as if the picture was a small part from something larger. All elements of the image are clues that allow the viewer to come by himself to this meaning.

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