N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
About a year and a half ago, I was invited by Recyclart – thru Vincen Beekman – to write about one of their community projects. It was a bit of an ethical dilemma, but I accepted, though I kept thinking Why am I looking at these images? The paragraph bellow, from the text published –…
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© Giovanni Troilo, J. keeps his gun hidden in a box in the woods of Bois du Cazier. This is more secure than keeping them at home since he regularly gets visits from the police., from the series The Dark Heart of Europe, 2014. © Giovanni Troilo, Gas supply tubes run along the houses built…
Read More© Vincent Delbrouck, all photographs from the series as dust alights
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© Mark King, from the series Plastic, 2011-12 © Mark King, from the series Plastic, 2011-12 © Mark King, from the series Plastic, 2011-12 “Back in January I was preparing for a screen printing artist in residency at the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium and wanted to go there with a new portrait project…
Read More© Bart Heynen, Veerle Baetens © Bart Heynen, Elodie Ouedraogo © Bart Heynen, Johan Heldenbergh © Bart Heynen, Lauren Versnick © Bart Heynen, Stany Crets More about the Waterlanders here
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© Erwin Verstappen © Erwin Verstappen To call this fashion photography is just plain wrong! I believe he is just too good to be commercial. His images have infinite lives… More of his work here
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© Laurence Skivée, Koen Wastijn “puma”, 2009 © Laurence Skivée, Mona Hatoum “Witness” (detail), Galerie Chantal Crousel, 2010 © Laurence Skivée, éclats, 2010 “À supposer que la photographie puisse ou doive servir à quelque chose, ce devrait être à fixer l’ordinaire, le mouvement de l’ordinaire, à arrêter simplement pour un instant le flux de l’ordinaire.…
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© Tjorven Bruyneel, Untitled, from the series I’ll be your mirror, 2010 © Tjorven Bruyneel, Untitled, from the series I’ll be your mirror, 2010 “Living in a Western society where virtually all taboos have fallen. Everything has been done, seen, admired, abhorred, nothing remains that can shock. But are we really that free? “I’ll be…
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© Sabrina Biancuzzi, Untitled, from the series L’instant P, 1986 © Sabrina Biancuzzi, Untitled, from the series L’instant P “Specialised in film photography and old-style development processes, Sabrina Biancuzzi is both a photographer and engraver. A young woman passionate about what she does, she loves both working in the lab and the grain of film…
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© Debby Huysmans, Untitled, from the series Sibir, 2009 © Debby Huysmans, Untitled, from the series Sibir, 2009 “The collapse of the Soviet empire has resulted in a fascinating political and social situation. The projects Elementarz (2003), Last Stop before Europa (2005) and In a Valley (2007) are a research on the periphery of the…
Read More© Karin Borghouts, Untitled, from the series Saga, 2005 © Karin Borghouts, Untitled, from the series Saga, 2005 “Many stereotypes are creations of the mass media, tourist bureaux or some other someones. Among Karin Borghouts’ photographs is one of a viewing platform placed on top of a hill. Had Borghouts been carried away by her…
Read More© Xavier Delory, Homo Festivus Scène 1, (Belgique), 2007 La semaine, l’homme moderne travaille dur, mais le week-end arrivé le short est de rigueur, le tout dans un décor qui flore bon le préfabriqué. Série “Homo Urbanus” et “Homo Festivus”, diptyque sur l’homme moderne. Les personnages de la série “Homo Urbanus” ont été photographiés aux…
Read More© Kumi Oguro, Sky, from the series Noise I, 2007 © Kumi Oguro, Noise, from the series Noise II, 2005 © Kumi Oguro, Far, from the series Noise III, 2004 “Perhaps unwittingly or even in spite of itself, Kumi Oguro’s photographic work has from the outset been drawn towards cinema. This influence has led the…
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