Nuit Blanche

The yearly Nuit Blanche took place in early October and it offered a great opportunity to experiment with taking photos in the dark. The Parc de Bruxelles was gorgeously illuminated and provided good surroundings to socially critical performance as well as installation art. This year’s theme was ‘Power Games’ …reflection and humour went hand in […]

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Photo exhibition: Brussels 50 years ago

In September, Photoresk visited the exhibition of Brussels Plaizier publishing house. This small publishing house has built up an image library including vintage postcards, prints, calendars and books since 1977, showing architectural germs in a vast collection of (mostly) postcards. For anybody who has some connection to Brussels, this exhibition is absolutely worthwhile exploring. Yet, […]

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We did it again: Photoresk at Zot Day 2017

It is now the second year in a row for Photoresk to participate the Zot Day in mid-September. The whole inner city of Brussels, along Boulevard Anspach, was packed with action sport demonstrations: mountain bike, kick-board, slack-line and many other sports which you would not normally see in the center. Yet, the absolute highlight of […]

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Lesbos, Greece

Six photographers, seven days – and lots of things to explore on the Greek island of Lesbos. There is hardly anything regarding photography that you cannot explore when you visit the Greek island of Lesbos in early summer. And we – a group of six photographers with different levels of experience from Belgium, Great Britain, […]

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Touring Aachen

It was great to be on the road with a group of photographers, like-minded people. Our Photoresk community is growing and we have now large groups in Brussels, Aachen and Cologne, and it was about time we organised another international meetup. Many thanks to Alexandra who suggested that we meet in Aachen! Photographers came from […]

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Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

On a sunny Sunday morning Photoresk visited the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. Open only for three weeks, once a year, one needs to be careful not to miss it. We lined up after 9 am to make sure to get in before the place gets too crowded. Surprisingly many people had managed to leave their beds […]

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Night light walk

Yes, the darkness is still here, but shouldn’t we enjoy it?! Brussels put together a Bright Light Festival for a few days and, of course, Photoresk had to check it out. Light installations were surprisingly impressive for such a short event and the few of us who weren’t scared by the rainy weather got some […]

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Medieval Christmas market and exhibition

We jumped to the middle ages in Siegburg, Germany, to enjoy the medieval Christmas market in town. We got invited by Alexandra, a long-time-member of Photoresk, who hasn’t forgotten our warmhearted group of photographers. She also welcomed us at her photography exhibition which made our day even more interesting when exploring the variety of portraits. […]

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Mystical autumn garden

The autumn, the cold, but the colors! There is always some beauty in the gloominess of the arriving winter. You can sense the coming changes and feel inspired by them. We captured this feeling at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium in Meise. The 92 hectares and 18 000 different kinds of plants and trees […]

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Halloween swing ball

Photoresk was invited to come to the HALLOWEEN SWING BALL and do some event shooting. We were terribly scared and frightened by the creatures around, but we had to do our job! So we stayed and here are the results.

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