Vincent Delbrouck

Vincent Delbrouck (aka V.D.) is a photographer born in Brussels in 1975. He aims to capture the “flow of life” through his photography, photobooks and installations. Delbrouck integrates his personal, contextual and fictional perspectives to produce lasting impressions of the places he chooses to explore. Working with various media – using images, collages and texts – he creates a common and colorful energy inside his books and constellations on the walls. Delbrouck’s work reflects his holistic vision on life. The pictures do not tell fixed stories, nor do they imply set meanings. Yet simultaneously the images seem somehow familiar, since they are composed of everyday elements. Delbrouck explores the medium of photography through imagination and mystery, connecting fragments of his personal life with print and collage. For him it is a way of painting: bringing together form and colour, he creates new, associative compositions. An important element is Delbrouck’s love for travel to find his secrets and obsessions: that is why he has re-visited some places, like Cuba and Nepal, where he entirely immerses himself in the landscape like home.

Vincent Delbrouck has already published five books: ‘Beyond History (Havana 1998-2006)’, which was a finalist for the Best Book of the year in RIP d'Arles 2009, ‘the Himalayan Trilogy (As Dust Alights, Some Windy Trees and Dzogchen)’, and ‘Catalogue’. His constellations were exhibited in several prestigious institutions like FOAM in Amsterdam, the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, the FoMu in Antwerp, el Centro de la Imagen in Mexico, the Photoforum Pasquart in Bienne, and more. Last summer, he had a solo show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. He was the winner of the OUTSET UNSEEN AWARD 2015, a finalist at the LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD 2016 and one of the DISCOVERIES OF THE MEETING PLACE IN FOTOFEST 2006 in Houston, USA. Delbrouck also collaborated with a large number of magazines, has taught in art schools in Brussels and practices Shiatsu massage. He is now preparing a new book about his experience in Cuba where he travelled many times recently. V.D. is represented by Stieglitz19 gallery, in Antwerp. He lives and works in the Belgian countryside, in Loupoigne.