At the beginning of last year, I started a blog called Flat & Framed. I was passionate about photography and felt the need to reflect and write about this interest. Now, it’s time to leave behind old topics and zoom in on others in Flat & Framed – version 2.0. The start of Flat & Framed […]
Photography + Perception = PhD
Flat & Framed has lived through its first year. Even though there hasn’t been any output in the form of blog posts during these last months, the thought processes that started with this blog have been ever evolving. I did not stop thinking about photography. On the contrary, I am glad to say that thinking about […]
What do you see in this picture?
What happens when eight writers interpret one photographer’s images? A collaboration between Belgian photographer Dirk Braeckman and literary magazine DW B gave us the answer. The results reminded me of one of the most-publicly known psychological instruments: the Rorschach test. Hermann Rorschach and his famous ink blots Invented in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach […]
Serendipiteit en Fotografie
Dit artikel verscheen in de catalogus van de tentoonstelling PhotoTWENS 2017
Why do we look at photographs?
Last week, I went to a photography gallery. Why? To look at photographs. Why? Because I am interested in photography Why? … Why do we look at photographs? Why do I look at photographs? Why do you look at photographs? Why do we look at photographs? As interesting as I find photography, as quickly it […]
Reflections on the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC 2017)
‘People studying art’ Who do you think about when you read this description? Artists, art historians and art critics might be the first people that pop up. If you brainstorm a bit longer, you might also include philosophers. Were you also thinking about visual scientists? Probably not. There’s a subgroup of visual scientists, however, that focus their research […]