New series on Dubruk

A new series of pictures has been added to our "Dubruk" website. Dubruk is a shared photographic scrapbook between Johan Doumont and myself.

The idea is quite simple: we go out together on photo trips and then select a series of 6 negatives to be posted side by side. It's about playfully contrasting two perspectives on the same location and at the same point in time. In that spirit, we have had 9 sorties over an 18-month period.

Our last series emerged from a photo trip organised by our club "Park Heverlea" to the little town of Thuin, located in the province of Hainaut (Henegouwen), and the ruines of the Aulne Abbey close by. Thuin is an interesting place to visit. It feels like time has stood still there for 30 years. The atmosphere stirs (sometimes pleasant, sometimes slightly uncomfortable) memories of childhood days.

For this series, I reverted to colour film for the first time since my Mongolian portfolio. I admit I have a weak spot for the delicate colour palette of Fuji Reala. Here, under the diffuse light of a cloudy sky, it worked again very well. Camera used was my trusted Mamiya 6.