The ‘Zinnekes’ (‘Halfbloods’ in the Brussels dialect) parade was drenched in the rain today. The ‘Zinnekes’ Parade is Belgium at its best: absurd, inventive with bits and pieces of anything and cardboard, funny, multi-cultural, with a twist of ‘it is messy but it’ll work out (and it does)’, and rainy. More on ‘This is not […]
Of course there was some rain… And of course there are a few unrelated photographs… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE…
It is raining. Good time for scanning never-edited photographs from the 80’s in Belgium. Might eventually feed the ‘This is not Belgium’ project… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE… PS: I changed the layout of the weblog, giving you bigger photographs. But I lost all the sidebar content. […]
Off to Brugge, to bring 45 vintage prints to 44Gallery where they will be exhibited starting May 4th… The prints will be for sale. There are only 1 or 2 copies of those prints around, handmade some 30 years ago in my darkroom. It is also some 30 years I haven’t been to Brugge. Hasn’t […]
Hopefully there will be some time for me to work a bit more on ‘This Is Not Belgium’ during my stay there. For more see HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE…
First time in a little more than 10 years I am in Brussels during late fall… It is rather tough… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
A last visit to the Atomium, the place where I took my first photographs in 1958 with a Kodak Brownie given to me by my father, and I’m flying back to Phnom Penh today, trying to catch up with post-elections developments there. More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently […]
A big crowd of Belgians attended the festivities held on the occasion of King AlbertII abdicating in favour of his son King Philippe/Filip. The sun shone bright. Also see here when King Baudouin passed away and AlbertII became King. More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently here and here.