photo by Jean-Jacques Sommeryns

Based in La Louvière, Belgium | a photographer, educator, curator, writer, and promoter of photography | studied Photography at the École de Photographie de Vevey, Switzerland | as a photographer, exhibited creative work mainly from the 1960s until the 1980s | has lectured on Photography and the History of Photography in various schools (1962-1998), including ENSAAV La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium | founder of the Charleroi Museum of Photography (opened in 1987) and its first director (until 2000) | author of the book L’Ordre des Chose: Photographies 1958-1988 (Musée de la Photographie, 2011) and contributor to the book Julia Pirotte: A Woman Photographer in the Resistance (Musée de la Photographie, 1994) | essayist of doc! photo magazine (2016-2022).

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