About Me
I was born in January 1963 in Belgium. My first photography experience happened during a 1972 trip in Hungary with a Kodak Brownie Holiday! I still remember the first feeling of framing and clicking the button.
Since then I’ve had sevral periods with and without photography. I last went back to it around 1998, apparently for good this time.
After a brief time devoted mainly to street photography, I evolved towards landscape. My landscape photography is akin to tourism snapshots. I see things I find interesting and try to show them to people. If someone finds one of those things interesting too, I am delighted.
As Colin justly remarked, landscape photography is not exactly an unexplored field. Conveying an intention is hard. Writing a caption could help, if writing the caption was not so hard to begin with. Most of the times, the caption for my pictures could be summarized by: “I saw this and I’d like to show it to you.”
Being mostly a (hobbyist) landscapist, I feel sometimes at loss to find something interesting. The self-repetition is hard to avoid, let alone the repetition of what others have done. So the two top challenges for the landscapist are, firstly, to find something new for him and, secondly, to find something new and interesting for an audience. The latter is most probably a presumptuous goal.
But, what can I say? Small details of nature as well as grandiose views never cease to amaze me, touch me, move me, and there are (rare) days when they appear to show up endlessly. I just feel compelled to photograph them. I guess it is the same for most landscapists.
I only print in black and white. Technically I should say mostly because I do have one colour picture somewhere that’s acceptable.
I have had my work displayed in three shows and did a portraits portofolio for the Tax Dept. of Deloitte Luxembourg. I now concentrate on displaying on the web and building a better structured, more selective portfolio.
Thanks for visiting.
Stephane :: Sep.20.2007 :: :: Comments Off
