Stephan Vanfleteren

Op 13 maart, precies het moment dat de wereld stilviel, begon Stephan Vanfleteren te wandelen. Hij wandelde bij valavond, vaak was hij uren onderweg. Hij zag het lente worden. ?Alles zoals altijd. En toch kijk je nu beter. Je ziet dat de winterstormen het strand hebben veranderd. Dat vloed anders terugstroomt naar de zee. Je fantaseert uitvergrote virussen in de kruinen van de geknakte bomen.? Gaandeweg raakt hij op de 15 kilometer rond zijn huis uitgekeken en breidt hij zijn actieradius uit. Onderweg fotografeert hij, maar hij houdt ook een dagboek bij. Hij noteert wat hij ziet, voelt en overdenkt. Na tweeënhalve maand is er het besef dat de stilte weg is. Stephan Vanfleteren eindigt zijn dagboek een paar weken later, als de zomer aanbreekt. Dagboek van een fotograaf legt op een fijnzinnige, persoonlijke en nabije manier de meest ingrijpende maanden uit onze hedendaagse geschiedenis vast.

Dagboek van een fotograaf. Coronawandelingen

During World War II, Adolf Hitler gave the order for a line of defense to be constructed along the coasts of the western front. Ranging from the French-Spanish border to the north of Norway, this Atlantic Wall is a series of bunkers, barricades and coastal batteries. Over the past year Stephan Vanfleteren photographed this 'wall' of more than 2600 kilometres in his well-known black-and-white style. He planted his tripod on various beaches in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, climbed cliff faces in France, sailed between the fjords of Norway and stood in the surf in Denmark to photograph the ruins of the largest military structure of the previous century. Vanfleteren shows with this series of photos his wonder for the untamed architectural beauty of these concrete structures and he shows the power of nature as it slowly reclaims these structures that were once considered impenetrable.

Atlantic Wall

An ode to Alberic 'Briek' Schotte, the godfather of all flandriens. The heroes of the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix are tough and determined. The Flemings specialize in riding on bad roads and in bad weather. This set of photos provides an intimate and emotional portrait of these legendary athletes, landscapes and the Flemish culture. Stephan Vanfleteren has been photographing cycling races in Belgium and its surrounding areas for more than 15 years already. With more than 100 images, carefully selected by photographer Stephan Vanfleteren.

Flandrien

Uitgebreid overzicht van het werk van de Belgische fotograaf Stephan Vanfleteren (1969) uit de periode 1987-2019, met een veertigtal begeleidende teksten door de fotograaf zelf.

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Margot Vanderstraeten

Interviews met oudere Nederlandstalige schrijvers.

Schrijvers gaan niet dood

Frederik Backelandt

Ron Reuman

Jan Maes

Eddy Merckx is revered as cycling's living deity. He gobbled up a record 525 race wins during his fearsome 14-year professional career. This book celebrates this awe-inspiring man through a new collection of previously unpublished photographs, showing his transformation.

Merckx 525

With 'Surf Tribe', photographer Stephan Vanfleteren shows that there is far more to surf culture than just sport and competition. Surfing is also about a deep admiration and respect for the ocean, as well as the feeling of insignificance when confronted with the forces of nature. Surfers use the waves for fun, but also to forget and to battle, both with others and with themselves. Vanfleteren looks beyond the traditional borders of the United States and Australia and searches the globe for people who live in places where sea and land meet. He documents a fluid community, which has nature as its sole leader. He portrays both young talent as well as living icons and old legends, both competition surfers and freesurfers. No action shots on azure blue waves but static and serene black and white portraits in Vanfleteren's well-known, haunting style, which show the real people behind the surfers, in all their strength and vulnerability. A series of images that penetrates to the true core of surf culture. Exhibition: CC Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (24.03.-28.05.2018).

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