Frederique Debras

plum5 by frédérique debras

The plum5-project started with a strong urge
and inner need for creation.
Creation that expresses my feelings
rather than my ‘classic’ approach of taking pictures.
I am used to photograph living moments
in the movement of time,
capturing life the way I see it.

But something has changed.
I want to create my own photographs
and infuse them with emotions,
connections, information, inspiration,.. whatever
moves through me at that moment.

I guess these images are inspired by everything
I have encountered in my life so far.
And they ‘happen’
when there’s a balance between
my thinking and feeling; between the outer and the inner.

It’s that change
from something specific into something intuitive.
This process is very powerful – sometimes mystical and magical.
It uses the joy, the colors, my past,
the anger, my sadness, the beauty,
the way things move, my ever present now.....

It involves everything. And at the same time nothing.

The ‘altering’ process through digital editing
can be very hard and long, it can be very uplifting but also daunting;
sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it takes months before I get it right.
But it is worth every effort and moment..... because of...

Bachelor Audio-Visual Arts, Brussels, Belgium ('88-'91) Master Audio-Visual Arts/photography, St.Lukas, Brussels, Belgium ('91-'95)