Image by Nicolas Jouveneaux
Next meeting will be Wednesday, 15 January 2025 at 20:00
Come and join us at our next Viewfinders club meeting, the first of 2025. It will be held at the Swedish church, 35 avenue des Gaulois, 1040 Brussels, on the evening of Wednesday, 15 January, starting at 20:00. The meeting will also be streamed live via Zoom, but only to paid-up members.
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The January meeting will, as usually, start with the President’s announcements by Adrian.
Adrian will also present a ten-minute Technical Tip (TTT), on the subject of “oil and water”, explaining how he makes beautiful and colourful photos using a mixture of oil and water.
The main event of the meeting will be a presentation by our guest speaker of the evening, More details to come.
Looking forward to seeing you at the club meeting.
December 2024
We had a Technical Tip (TTT) by club member Alan Waldern, on the subject of “Saving money and going faster”, or how to be economical with software and other subscriptions.
The “main course” of the meeting, one of the semi-annual members’ challenges, on the theme of “It’s A Square World”. Members were invited to submit photos with a square (1:1) format, either as prints or as digital images, following the “inspiration” and rules recently distributed by e-mail. The submitted photos take advantage of the square format. An album will be added later with all the photos that participated in the challenge.
Our guest judge was Jess Sutton, a British artist living in Brussels since 2011, who was also the guest speaker in our meeting of January 2024. Jess uses video, painting, performance, photography, collages and installations to express her fascination with space, time and existence.
November 2024
Viewfinders member Eduardo Tardáguila had a presentation of a project he developed in his native country, Uruguay. In his own words: "it's about Photography, but it's also about dreaming, and how both working together can change the whole trajectory of someone's life.
It is about the development of a 10 years Photography project realized in Uruguay (South-América) together with Marjan Van Doorselaer. The fundamental structure of the project was the creation and diffusion of images showing the reality of the Uruguayan people with disabilities. Increasing the awareness about it, could be a way to improve their condition inside the society. To make this possible we began to teach photography to disabled people in Montevideo. The motto was: A vision of themselves, told and created by themselves. "
Hélène Cook presented one of her series inspired on the photography of Ernst Haas as an introduction and inspiration to the photo project that will run until February, with the title “Photos in the style of”.
The rest of the meeting was covered with presentations of photos by club members of the recent photo walk in Charleroi, as well as personal projects.
October 2024
The October meeting was the occasion to commemorate 30 years of the Viewfinders Photography Club of Brussels. As stated on our website, Viewfinders is “inspiring photographers of today and the next generations”, and we are open to anyone with an interest of photography, as we represent a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities and photographic abilities and interests.
In this occasion, we started the meeting with a social event, sharing a birthday cake.
Our main event of the evening, a presentation by a guest speaker, Carine Van Gerven.
Carine Van Gerven is a Belgian photographer and photography teacher from Pelt and her name is practically synonymous with the highly successful “Lens op the Mens” photography festival that takes place in Pelt once every two years since 2017.
But Carine is also a highly successful photographer on her own right, having exhibited in several countries and having been curator not only of “her” festival in Pelt but also of the Helphoto International Festival in Helsinki. She also received international awards in events such as the prestigious Siena Awards 2024.
Carine Van Gerven creates personal life stories and emotions with a nod to the past but still universal and off all times. Her beautiful photos of “tableaux vivants” are inspired by 17th century paintings and form a body of work that is unlike anything seen at Viewfinders meetings before. To find out more about her, visit her website.
November-December 2024 #306.pdfRecent News and Updates
Graffiti Art Photo Walk at Marius Renard -Anderlecht on Sunday, 8 December.
The club celebrates its 30th Anniversary !!
Night Photowalk to European Quarter on Thursday, 21 November.
Compact Camera photowalk on Sunday 3 November.
Photowalk to Charleroi along a section of the 'Boucle Noir' announced for 6 October.
Agenda of activities for season 2024-2025 was published. See Calendar.
Added a new page with photos from the RPS-Viewfinders Weekend Wonder Walk.
New photo albums from last season's Projects and Challenges have been added on the website.
Photowalk at the 8th annual BXL Tour on Sunday, June 16th (Bloomsday)!
Viewfinders and RPS-Benelux photo walks in Brussels, 18-20 May 2024.
New web page published with details of the recent Minimal exhibition. Go here.
Viewfinders featured on Bruzz TV. Link is further down in the Home page.
Worshop on ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) by Charlotte Bellamy organized in April.
Exhibition "Minimal" at BWC held from 14 January until February 9.
Follow here other upcoming activities and monthly meetings organized by the club. Many are for members only.
If you would like to know more about joining the club or a particular activity, contact us.
Our last meeting was....
September 2024
Our guest speaker, Brussels and Lisbon-based Music Photographer David Vannucci shared what it takes to be a committed concert, festival, and tour photographer. He walked us through the challenges and joys of low-light photography and working with strict routines and schedules while working on festivals or being on tour, but also shared the rewarding and creative process of working on studio projects, off-stage with artists and performers.
Over the years David developed a niche for Behind the Scenes photography, a niche that he was able to finetune through his collaboration with the Belgian music festival Pukkelpop: It was the starting point for his “Stardust” series of photo expos and books.
You can find more info on David’s work visiting www.davidvannucci.art and www.muckmag.com/work/stardust-pukkelpop-mainstage.
In addition, Erick presented a “technical tip” on the use of social media as a way to increase the visibility of your photos beyond your circle of family and friends, and for attracting potential customers or opening possibilities for collaboration. He highlighted the fact that different social media have different audiences.
“Minimal photography”, like painting and music from the shared artistic movement of the 1950s and 60s, seeks to show essential subjects, principles or processes by removing unnecessary distraction from the message to let that one primary motif shine through.
Even while the photographic frame is a very limited fragment of the world, we can limit it even further by deliberately choosing to show less. When it is less, when it is nothing more than that one subject or notion, then the message of the photograph can be crystal clear. No distractions, no confusions, no other elements that might distort the message – just one notion, presented there as a constant feature for us to contemplate and enjoy.
Sixteen photographers from Viewfinders Photography Club of Brussels, collectively present their vision on minimal photography.
COLLECTIVE: Largest exhibition organized by the club.
Visit the exhibition's page for more information and
Take a 3D virtual tour !
“Collective” offers participants and visitors an opportunity to explore the full range of the photographic art and what it can mean in our society today. Each of the 38 artists – members of Viewfinders - chooses their own theme and style, yielding an extensive view of the photographic medium, from expressing an artistic intent to documenting the world around us. This showcase of the creativity and skill of the members highlights the beauty and power of photographs.
VIEWS ON TIME
13 photographers bring you their personal view on something we all have too little of…
