Born in Zottegem (Belgium) on 15 December 1944.
Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent,
and at the Higher St. Lucas Institute in Brussels (1971-1977).
Knight in the Order of King Leopold II.

I consider photography as a bundling of personal visions and experiences, put into a picture, left open, by which others have the possibility to discover or to project their own visions and experiences in that picture. Art or no art, the most important thing is making good pictures. If this is art indeed, I am willing to accept this as such. Yet, I wonder if the art critics, traditionally, cannot impose on us what has to be or what has to become art?

Group exhibitions
1964: Bordeaux (f).
1966: Austria, International Youth Exhibition.
1966-67-68: Exhibitions 'Creative Hands'.
1968: Has been selected as the only Belgian photographer for the exhibition 'The Woman', realized by Karl Pawek.
1968-69: Ghent, St. Pietersabdij 'Jazz and People'.
1972: Exhibitions of artists, members of 'Marnixring'.
1972-73: Eeklo, Ledeganck Gallery.
1976-77: 'Fifteen Flemish Photographers', Vienna, Ch‰lon s/ Sa™ne, Brussels, Belgrado, Antwerp.
1976:New York (usa), Stieglitz Gallery.
1976: Ghent, 'Photography in Flanders'.
1979: Brussels, 'Aspects of Practice of an Art'.
1979: Arles (f) 'Rencontres Internationales de Photography'.
1979: 'Creative reality', a travelling exhibition abroad (Min. of Flemish Culture).
1979: Beguinage St. Amandsberg, 'The Child'.
1980: Brussels and Ghent, 'Camera Belgica'.
1980: Museum Sterckshof Deurne, 'Photography in Belgium 1940-80'.
1982: Contemporary Photography in East and West-Flanders, Heusden-Zolder; Waregem.
1983: Cardiff (gb), Open Welsh.
1983: Ghent, Galerie xyz 'Made in Belgium'.
1983: Deurne, Sterckshof 'Photography as a document'.
1983: Ghent, Witte Zaal 16 + 1.
1984: Antwerp, i.c.c, Biennale of Criticism.
1984: Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond, '15 Flemish Photographers'.
1984: Lorient (f), Rencontres photographiques en Bretagne.
1985: Antwerp, Museum Sterckshof.
1986: Essen (Germany), Folkwang Museum.
1986: Ghent, fnac-Gallery.
1991: Alden Biesen, 'Human Scenes'.
1992: 'De Toverdoos', Ghent

Pictures in possesion of:
Museum Sterckshof, Deurne. State print room, Leiden (nl) Erasmus University (nl) Ministry of Dutch Culture Canadian Museum of Photographs (can) The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (gb) La Bibliothque Nationale, Paris (f).

Bibliography
Photojahrbuch International, Leipzig 1968, 1969, 1970, 1976
Photographic Yearbook, London 1974, 1975
British Journal of Photography Annual 1974, 1975
'Practice of an Art in East Flanders' 1977, p. 100-105
'15 Flemish Photographers' 1977
'Belgisch Kreatief Ambacht' 1979, nr. 3, p. 2-11
'Photography in Belgium 1940-1980' 1980, p. 29
'Camera Belgica' 1980, p. 60-61
'Gaselwest' 1981, nr. 1, p. 14-15
'Arttribune' 1981, nr. 4, p. 19
'Foto' (nl) 1981, nr. 8, p. 52-59
'Foto' (nl) 1982, nr. 9, p. 72-74
'Foto' (nl) 1989, nr. 1, p. 65-66
'Imagescommajust point' 1982
'Panorama' 1982, nr. 84, p.12-17
'Photography as a document' 1983
'Biennale of criticism' 1984, p.51
'15 Flemish Photographers' 1984, p. 10-11
'FFotoview ' (gb) 1984, nr. 8, p. 10
'Belgisch Kreatief Ambacht' 1984, nr. 1, p. 15
'Perspectief' 1984, nr.18/19, p. 15
'Ora pro nobis' 1985
'Contact' fnac, March 1986, p. 71-73
'Visionage' Olympus, 1987, nr. 8, p. 2
'Visionage' Olympus, 1989, nr. 12, p. 5
'Yang' 1991, nr.2/3, p. 76-90
'Photography in East Flanders' 1992, p. 101-104
'Scenery 92' 1992, p. 28-29
'The paradox of photography' 1992, p. 269
'Auer Index des photographs de 1839 nos jours' 1992, Ed. Camera Obscura
'For a history of photography in Belgium' 1993, p. 78-79
'Images for a name' Human Brothers 1993, p. 13, 27, 31, 39, 40
'Foto Manifestatie Eindhoven' (nl) 1994, p. 25; cat. nr. 51
'Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen' 1994-4, p. 153
'Focus' (nl), 1996 jg.83, nr.9, p. 77