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)

Basic information

Name
Stephan Vanfleteren
Country
Belgium
City
Veurne

Supported projects

Single/Return

  • Human Rights
  • Politics

Everywhere people are on the move. In search of a better life. Europe is bursting at the seams with new citizens. The old continent is struggling with the immigration phenomenon; and handling it with amazing ineptitude. The question is not: who is welcome and who is not? The question has to be: how are we to accommodate all these newcomers?