About

Hi, I’m Veerle De Vriendt!

Photography is my language, light is my brush.
As a photographer, I tell stories through the play of shapes and contrasts.
I challenge the boundaries of photography by finding simplicity within complexity.

The choice between color and black-and-white serves as a visual representation of my emotions and state of mind. It symbolizes the interplay between vivid, warm memories and moments of melancholy, anxiety, detachment… In this way, my emotional connection to the present, past, and future becomes tangible.

The graphic aspect is never far from sight in my visual language: it lingers in every composition, in every play of lines, as a natural extension of who I am. This visual way of thinking has its roots in my graphic design education, but it goes beyond technique or theory. It is a way of seeing, a way of living.

Cameras of Choice

Hasselblad 903swc (all-manual mechanical camera) with
Carl Zeiss Biogon camera lens
Fujifilm GFX 50s (digital medium format camera)
Nikon F5 (analog single-lens reflex camera)

Education

2020 – 2024
Photographic Arts, Sint-Lucas Academy, Ghent

2017 – 2018
Studio and Product Photography, Mediaschool Campus Pélichy, Ghentbrugge

2017
Lightroom, Mediaschool Campus Pélichy, Ghentbrugge

2008 – 2009
Visual Design: Professional Track in Graphic Design, St-Lucas College Ghent

2007 – 2008
Visual Arts: Academic Track in Graphic Design, St-Lucas College Ghent

2003 – 2007
Ceramics Training with artist Françoise Busin

1995 – 1999
Analog Black-and-White Photography and Printing Techniques, Higher Institute for Graphic Education Mariakerke