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.
Expositions
August 22 – August 24, 2025
Artist Meeting, Grand Casino Knokke
July 12 – July 13, 2025
House of Arts, Temselaan 11 in Strombeek-Bever,
from 11 AM to 7 PM
May 18, 2025
Open Studio Day (Oudburg 64 bus 001 in Ghent).
Welcome from 11 AM to 6 PM.
December 6, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Group exhibition at Art For All Gallery, Vrijdagsmarkt 45 in Ghent
June 6- July 17, 2024
Duo exposition at Coutre M.A.M., Kleinvleeshuissteeg 2A in Ghent
June 8-June 16,2024
Group exposition at Lalement, Doornzelestraat 71 in Ghent
June 17-June 25, 2023
Group exposition at Sint-Lucas School of Arts in Ghent
Publications
October 4, 2024
‘Buitengewoon België’, The Inspring Collection
May, 2009
‘Het Straatsalon’, vzw Sociumi
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