Stephan Vanfleteren lives and works in his native Belgium. After his photography studies he started to work as a freelancer in 1993.
His radical black-and-white documentary work covers the disappearance of small, anarchic worlds and the phenomena of everyday life in his homeland Belgium as well as events from world's conflict zones to every day life around the world.
He also interested in portraying artists, actors, writers, directors, musicians and all other people that express themselves by their profession.
Vanfleteren won several national and international photo awards and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe.
He published several books like 'Flandrien' (Merz/Luc Derycke), Tales of a Globalizing world (Thames&Hudson), Elvis&Presley (Kruse Verlag), Buren/Neighbours (De Verbeelding).
(Source: www.vanfleteren.com)