Max Pinckers is a photographer based in Brussels. He has produced various photobooks such as Lotus (2011), The Fourth Wall (2012) and Will They Sing Like Raindrops Or Leave Me Thirsty (2014). He is currently a doctoral researcher in the arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent. Pinckers has had exhibitions at the MOCAK in Poland (2016), the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States (2015) and the Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar in Belgium (2015), among others. Awards include the Edward Steichen Award (2015) and the City of Levallois Photography Award (2013). In 2015 he founded the independent publishing house Lyre Press and became a nominee of Magnum Photos. Pinckers is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp.