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stijn van der linden
mechelen, belgium
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exhibitions
2013 | the World as I found it, Group Exhibition, Leuven.
2014 | the World as I found it, Group Exhibition, Bierbeek.
2014 | Fotofilmic, 5th Place Lomography & Adox Honorable Mention, Group Exhibition.
2017 | Real Estate Architecture Summer School Group Exhibition, WTC #1, Brussels.
2018 | mentormentor, Group Exhibition, Blanco, Ghent.
2019 | Photobook Week Aarhus 2019, Walking Tour & Book Launch, dokk1, Aarhus.
books
2019 | an essay on the concave city corner [video]
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Dummy Awards:
- Self Publish Riga 2018, Top 10 & Audience award;
- Unseen Dummy Award 2018, Shortlisted;
- Winner of the Photobook Week Aarhus 2018 Dummy Award.
- Maribor Photobook Award 2020, Honorable mention;
- PHotoEspaña 2020, Mejor Libro De Fotografia Del Año, Finalista Categoría Internacional.
- 2019 | Kasseler Fotobuchblog, review;
- 2020 | Conscientious Photography Magazine, review;
- 2020 | Collector Daily, review.
Book Awards:
Book Reviews:
The book is available in the TMSN Shop, Tipi Bookshop and at Reminders Photography Stronghold.
publications
2019 | European Photography Magazine, issue 104.
featured online
2011 | f-stop magazine, Issue 47, Group Exhibit.
2014 | humble arts foundation, Group Show 39.
2018 | BrowniE, Coups de coeur du Liège Photobook festival;
2018 | FK Magazine, Self Publish Riga 2018 Top 10;
2019 | Belgian Platform for Photobooks, catalogue.
texts by katrien vanherck
photographs are © stijn van der linden, 2020
brussels north district: the office tower
A project commissioned by Real Estate Architecture, it explores the legacy of architectures built by private developers during the 1960s and 1970s. Through workshops and lectures, publications and exhibitions, it aims to reveal the transformation potentials of these ubiquitous developments. Rooted in the contexts of three different Belgian cities, the research project reconsiders three specific architecture typologies: the apartment building, the office tower and the commercial centre.
In the framework of their 2017 summer school: the office tower, I photographed the Brussels North District from the street, while Antoine Espinasseau photographed inside current or defunct offices. During the summer school the photographs were exhibited in a joint exhibition on the first level of the WTC Tower 1 building in Brussels.
private - public
The atmosphere in the streets becomes more and more toxic for photographers. People are protesting, verbally or even physically, against themselves or their property being photographed on the street. These protests are strangely in contrast with the fact that people are throwing images of themselves in private settings online with little regard for privacy settings or privacy laws. Perhaps they don’t mind the aspect of their privacy being made public so much after all, as long as they have control over what and how? Either way, there is a clear duality in the way people perceive their privacy that is not only a new, interesting aspect of the world in the streets today but even something that can no longer be ignored.
construction
the future lies with the city.
there is nothing to see here
In every place in the world, there are essential locations, buildings, monuments, statues or even atmospheres that everyone knows, everyone wants to see and everyone tries to capture in a photograph. Tens of thousands of variations of these photographs are circulating on the web. People are digesting these images in a high-speed tempo and are quick to dismiss what they have seen before so many times. At the verge of the 20th century, painters as Manet, Cézanne or Picasso were searching for new, interesting ways to depict reality in paintings in response to the rise of photography. Similarly, photographers or visual artists now are seeking new ways to show the world in response to the increased availability of technology and the internet as a means of distribution. The challenge is to find shots that still capture the viewers’ attention, that force them to look at a known concept with a new perspective and that make them more consciously take in and experience the photographs.
random three
As a photographer, the city is an important focus of my work. Last year I published a photobook titled an essay on the concave city corner, the reward of a long and intensive process of photographing, conceptualising, studying, designing and writing. After spending a lot of time and energy on that single project, I needed something less complex, for a change: bringing random images together, without too much contemplation or purpose. This collection of 3 photographs involves the city. Prints are available at the TMSN shop.