Next meeting will be Wednesday, 12 March 2025 at 20:00
Come and join us at our next Viewfinders club meeting. It will be held at the Swedish church, 35 avenue des Gaulois, 1040 Brussels, on the evening of Wednesday, 12 March, starting at 20:00. The meeting will also be streamed live via Zoom, but only to paid-up members.
We will have a presentation of photos taken by members during one of the latest Viewfinders photo walks, and a TTT on cyanotype, presented by Sabine Posdziech. Cyanotype is a photographic printing method that produces monochrome, blue-coloured prints on different supports, being sensitive to ultraviolet and blue light spectrum.
The main event of the meeting will be a presentation by our guest speaker of the evening, Elke Pannier. Elke is a Belgian photographer and a photo editor in the Flemish daily newspaper De Standard. She will be talking about her work as a photo editor and present her latest personal project, “Heartland”. This is a documentary project about the borders of the Dutch Bible Belt, an area straddling between tradition and innovation.
Some of Elke’s work, including this ongoing project, can be seen on her Instagram: www.instagram.com/elke_pannier/
Looking forward to seeing you at the club meeting.
New exhibition by club members coming soon...
January-February 2025 #307.pdfRecent News and Updates
Photo walk to the Brussels "Bright" festival Feb 15th.
New club Collective exhibition coming soon. More info here.
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 2024
Our last meeting was....
February 2025
Photo project “Photos in the style of…”
Nine club members submitted photos done “in the style of…” for the annual photo project, presenting photos inspired by the work of other photographers or of painters.
These were a very interesting set, showing how photographers can be influenced by art works they see, either intentionally or simply as part of their cultural background that influences what and how they photograph and/or develop their images.
The main event was our guest speaker, Nick Hannes. Nick has already presented his work to Viewfinders a few years ago but has recently published a new book, “New Capital”. In his own words, this book “shows how utopia and dystopia are sometimes surprisingly closely related”.
The objective of this project was to show 6 cities, built since the 1960s or still being built, designed to be the new national capitals. The cities covered in the project were the New Administrative Capital (NAC) in Egypt, Brasilia in Brazil, Abuja in Nigeria, Astana in Kazakhstan, Sejong in South Korea and Nusantara in Indonesia.
His photos show both the architecture of the new cities, generally intended to glorify the political regime of the countries, the people who build the cities and those who live or work in them. They should be seen as a kind of “social critique” on the concept of new capitals, reflecting the different social and geographical conditions and different political regimes under which they are built.
Nick’s work and information on his books, including “New Capital”, can be found on his website, https://nickhannes.be. An exhibition of his work on the “New Capital” project is ongoing until 30 March, in the Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft, in Bornem, about 50 km from Brussels.
Joaquim Capitao
January 2025
The guest speaker in the January meeting was Christa Geeroms, a Belgian photographer who recently published her first book, “Personal Spaces”, a retrospective of 12 years photographing the man and woman next door. Her photos show people in their environment, putting them in the context of their lives. But the photos also reflect a lot of Christa’s personal history, so the personal context refers to both the person photographed and the photographer.
Christa started by explaining how she started photography, how she started taking photos without a clear objective in mind, and how her idea of exhibiting her photos developed into the creation of a book, in which she worked with poet Huguette Damiaens to have a mix of photography and poetry.
Christa’s work and information on her book “Personal Spaces” can be found on her website, .
Adrian presented a TTT on using oil and water to obtain vibrant and colourful photos. He described the material he uses for this, which consists of a glass bowl, a colourful background, a spoon and, of course, oil and water. From the photography point of view, he uses a camera with a macro lens and a tripod.
Adrian explained how he manages to have the oil “bubbles” perfectly in focus and he described the camera settings he uses. He then showed several examples of beautiful photos produced in this way.
Joaquim Capitão
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