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Endless Night
Photo © Kristof Vadino
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In Brussels, the capital of Europe, thousands have no home. They search everywhere for a place to sleep, for protection and intimacy. Under bridges along the highway, in abandoned fabrics, in shopping streets, along the railroad tracks, you name it. Since I started this project, I can't stop wondering that so many people live like trolls hiding in corners, holes, and cracks of this city.
Our western societies have never been so rich and income disparities have never risen so fast. The lower classes have it difficult. More and more end up in the street. Especially after the financial crisis of 2008.
Sometimes I go out alone, sometimes I follow the social workers of Samu Social, an organization helping the homeless. One evening the nurse Lola unwraps a bandage. White little animals are roaming around in the wounds. The old man hadn't taken of his shoes for almost a year. The stockings of the man were grown into the flesh.
We all want to think we will never become homeless. Many social workers tell from their experience that it can arrive to anybody. That may be true and it is a wise lesson, but even so you have much more chances to become homeless when your earnings are at the lowest side.
Spending those nights searching for homeless people wanting to be photographed, is like descending into the hell of Dante.
I continue to work on the series. They will be published in the press. And will be edited in a book and expo.
In 2016 Lensculture stated me as one of the 50 best emerging photographers worldwide, I received the Nikon Press Photographers Award in the categorie stories, the 2nd prize of Life Framer 'Humans of the World', I was finalist for the Rencontres d'Arles Festival Voies-Off, the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant and the Brussels Street Photography Festival.
In 2014-2016 three grants gave me the opportunity to work on longterm projects: Fund Pascal Decroos for reporting on the textile workers of Cambodia. Fund Filip Decock for documenting the eco-sustainibility of Tonle Sap Lake. And International Development Reporting Grant for documenting the role of wastepickers in recycling plastic into 3D filament.
In my approach to the subject I try to be as intuïtive as possible.
I am based in Brussels, Belgium.
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In Brussels, the capital of Europe, thousands have no home. They search everywhere for a place to sleep, for protection and intimacy. Under bridges along the highway, in abandoned fabrics, in shopping streets, along the railroad tracks, you name it. Since I started this project, I can't stop wondering that so many people live like trolls hiding in corners, holes, and cracks of this city.
Our western societies have never been so rich and income disparities have never risen so fast. The lower classes have it difficult. More and more end up in the street. Especially after the financial crisis of 2008.
Sometimes I go out alone, sometimes I follow the social workers of Samu Social, an organization helping the homeless. One evening the nurse Lola unwraps a bandage. White little animals are roaming around in the wounds. The old man hadn't taken of his shoes for almost a year. The stockings of the man were grown into the flesh.
We all want to think we will never become homeless. Many social workers tell from their experience that it can arrive to anybody. That may be true and it is a wise lesson, but even so you have much more chances to become homeless when your earnings are at the lowest side.
Spending those nights searching for homeless people wanting to be photographed, is like descending into the hell of Dante.
I continue to work on the series. They will be published in the press. And will be edited in a book and expo.
About author:
I am a freelance photojournalist, working for Belgian and international media. Publications include De Standaard, Le Monde, BBC, Elsevier and De Tijd among others. I also work for NGO's, mostly for Doctors of the World.In 2016 Lensculture stated me as one of the 50 best emerging photographers worldwide, I received the Nikon Press Photographers Award in the categorie stories, the 2nd prize of Life Framer 'Humans of the World', I was finalist for the Rencontres d'Arles Festival Voies-Off, the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant and the Brussels Street Photography Festival.
In 2014-2016 three grants gave me the opportunity to work on longterm projects: Fund Pascal Decroos for reporting on the textile workers of Cambodia. Fund Filip Decock for documenting the eco-sustainibility of Tonle Sap Lake. And International Development Reporting Grant for documenting the role of wastepickers in recycling plastic into 3D filament.
In my approach to the subject I try to be as intuïtive as possible.
I am based in Brussels, Belgium.
BACK TO GALLERY
