From the Artist

How I Picture the Music is a coming together of artists. On the one hand, the photographer and his images, and on the other, the artists of his musical journey through life.

 

Music has accompanied me daily since my teenage years, and along with it an entire visual universe. From CD covers, to videoclips to shows and concerts. My experience of music is above all one of friendship, tapes passed around, concerts experienced together, energy coursing through our veins after blasting our eardrums.

 

Thanks to a move from my native Belgium to the States, I have re-immersed myself in thirty years of musical appreciation. Around fifty favorite songs have emerged; those that I’ve listened to thousands of times, and that I still play today with a great deal of pleasure.

 

Having established my playlist, I then delved into the past 20 years of my photography and let the magic do its work. For each song title an image that I could imagine as an album cover sprang to mind, imposing itself as a personal visual representation.

 

HOW I PICTURE THE MUSIC is also a self-published book. Because my passion for (nice) art books is equall to my dedication for photography, I wanted to be part of the "book construction.” This book is à la française format (17 x 24 cm) with Swiss binding, so it can perfectly fit comfortably in hands. In addition to the white pages, I inserted a black page booklet at the beginning and end to create a breath before diving into the music/picture experience.128 pages and a print run of 300 copies, each signed and numbered in a bilingual French/English edition.