From 2002 till 2004 I worked as an assistant of photographer Hans Roels, whom I'm still grateful to, for everything I've truly learned about photography, I learned from him.

At that time, I was living in the Marolles, an emblematic neighbourhood of Brussels. Emblematic because it combines a certain nostalgia for the way Brussels has been (c'ˆ©tait le temps ou Bruxelles bruxellait) and at the same time it faced (and still faces) a rapid development that was/is felt all over Brussels.

Meeting Jean-Michel Jaspers, an architect who has his offices in this neighbourhood, I decided to make a book about this. Hans, Jean-michel, myself and a friend of mine who's a writer, Thierry Goedseels worked for about 3 years on this.

The book is a collection of 40 group photographs that represent more or less the diversity of people living and working in this neighbourhood.

Texts were collected during numerous, night-long visits to the bars in the neighbourhood where ancient human relics can still be found, hanging or sitting somewhere in dodgy, dark corners of even dodgier, darker bars.

©Kurt Deruyter 2002-2008

size: 325 x 300 mm
pages: 148 pages
printed with Agfa Sublima screening technology
luxurious paper
hardcover with American jacket - superior finishing

price: 48.50 EUR/copy
shipment in Belgium included

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