Thomas Vandenberghe (Gent, Belgium) makes small, intimate photographs, a kind of diary of his personal life. Using a compact film camera with flash, his aesthetic style is the one of the private snapshot. His work deals with the psychology of the image as much as the psychology of relationships and is driven by longing, love and loss.
If for Vandenberghe the act of photographing has to do with desire, then the equally important act of printing addresses memory. The need to not only look at, but also reconcile oneself with what once was, but perhaps even more so with what could have been – but isn’t and will never be. Repeated, faded, or even torn, scratched or cut, his gelatin silver prints carry the poignant proof of an ongoing process of feelings and reactions, or perhaps even a conclusion reached. Each printed photograph of Vandenberghe contains the drama of what one hopes and longs for – an imagined truth – and what ultimately remains. They are the lingering, emotionally burdened and over time distorted evidence of a reality one now has to live with.
Thomas Vandenberghe
Portfolio
The well gardened mind | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 18 cm
A la folie | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 7,5 x 11 cm
A la folie | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 7 x 10 cm
A la folie | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 7,5 x 11 cm
A la folie | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 7 x 15 cm
Can’t pay you to disappear | 2016Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 9,5 x 14 cm
Het zal je dochter maar zijn | 2019Information requestRenseignements
Paper cut and painting, 9 x 13 cm
Het zal je dochter maar zijn | 2019Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 9 x 13 cm
Het zal je dochter maar zijn | 2019Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 9 x 13 cm
Still life of used flowers | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Lambda print, 60 x 70 cm, edition of 5
Still life study | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Lambda print, 60 x 70 cm, edition of 5
Monstera | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 18 x 24 cm, edition of 2
Ce qui reste | 2016Information requestRenseignements
C-Print, 18 x 25 cm
Ce qui reste | 2016Information requestRenseignements
RA4 color print, 15 x 20 cm
BKK – nightworker | 2015Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 9 x 13 cm
Pseudo Honeymoon – Taiwan | 2018Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 17 cm
Thomas Vandenberghe x Lien Buysens | 2021Information requestRenseignements
Drawing on gelatin silver print, 4,5 x 6,8 cm
Thomas Vandenberghe x Lien Buysens, Can B | 2021Information requestRenseignements
Drawing on gelatin silver print, 4,5 x 6,8 cm
Twist in my sobriety | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 40 x 50 cm
Neither flowers, neither wreaths | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Gelatin silver print, 40 x 50 cm
Milkfactory | 2020Information requestRenseignements
Lambda print, 40 x 50 cm, edition of 3
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HET IS DAN GENOEG GEWEEST
Collaboration; Tine Guns & Mathieu Ronse
Self-published, 2018
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Can’t pay you to disappear
AKINA BOOKS
Hand-made photobook
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13451003T
Stockmans, 2017
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Sorry would have saved me the trip
Ludion, 2017
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