The lady with pigeons - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Photograph

I was born in december 1949 in Brussels. My father was an architect and my mother, an artist-painter. I was quickly interested in music as well as in other arts. At the age of 8, I started studying the piano, which corresponds to the time I was given my first camera and began to shoot my first black and white pictures. When I was sixteen, I had the opportunity to take part in the filming of the Belgian film director Luc de Heusch's long feature film "Jeudi, on chantera comme dimanche" (On thursday, we'll sing like on sunday), with Marie-France Boyer, Bernard Fresson and Francis Lax. This unexpected and wonderful experience of living with the technical team and the actors looked like a dream and allowed me to shoot pictures on the set just next to the official photographer Virginia Leirens who taught me lots of tricks. Since then, I have had one single objective : getting into the world of the picture. After my studies in photography at the INRaCi (Institut de Radio-électricité et de Cinématographie - Brussels) and in cinematography at the INSAS (Institut National de Arts des Spectacles & techniques de diffusion - Brussels), I became a photographer, while working as a free lance cameraman for RTL Television "Flash de 20 heures" (evening news). Later on, I worked in different fields from direction to production of audiovisual programmes for companies and institutions (films, video's, slide-tape programmes, multivisions ...). This professional experience, extended to the creation of big events and to the development of interactive video programs, till the design of multimedia achievements, up to interactive real time 2D/3D programs. Today, I am retired and decided to devote much of my time to photography : the real one which does not lie, the one you really feel and strikes your eyes through the viewfinder, with the least special effects as possible.