Fotografie in dialoog. Fotografie in België; inleiding en interviews. FInterviews met ilosofie van de fotografie van Walter Benjamin tot Roland Barthes. by Elias, Willem. Swinnen, Johan - 1999

Oostende, Belgium: PMMK, 1999. Text: Duch. 64 p.; b/w photographs; 21 x 27 cm. Charif Benhelima (b. 1967, Brussels), photo-artist lives and works in Antwerp. Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600. Consumed by a sense of incongruence -as the artist early became orphan of a mixed couple- Benhelima embarked in a nine-year (1990-1999) photographic research on the feeling of being a foreigner, which later resulted in the tough yet poetic book 'Welcome to Belgium'. New York city was somehow a turning point in Benhelima’s work, once he brought his documentary approach to the popular Polaroid 600 (camera and film). Living in that city for 3 years, he developed the unpaired and far most accomplished work made with an amateuristic Polaroid, Harlem on my mind. Divided in… Read More

Oostende, Belgium: PMMK, 1999. Text: Duch. 64 p.; b/w photographs; 21 x 27 cm. Charif Benhelima (b. 1967, Brussels), photo-artist lives and works in Antwerp. Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600. Consumed by a sense of incongruence -as the artist early became orphan of a mixed couple- Benhelima embarked in a nine-year (1990-1999) photographic research on the feeling of being a foreigner, which later resulted in the tough yet poetic book 'Welcome to Belgium'. New York city was somehow a turning point in Benhelima’s work, once he brought his documentary approach to the popular Polaroid 600 (camera and film). Living in that city for 3 years, he developed the unpaired and far most accomplished work made with an amateuristic Polaroid, Harlem on my mind. Divided in… Read More

Gemeentelijk Museum van Elsene 2009. Hardcover (ENGLISH) and softcover (DUTCH) , two volumes in 1 25 x 25 cm,. ISBN 9789053497449. Focusing on "fading in the contemporary visual arts", this exhibition and book bring together, for the first time, the work of 45 very talented Belgian artists - all of them active on the international art scene - from this particular point of view. Through 90 works of art, "Fading" examines how these artists derived their own critical expression from today's multimedia consumption and information society, exploring the limits of fading in the pictorial space. The exhibition and the book compare the various artistic dimensions involved in the reconstruction of the image. This pictorialism finds its roots in the suggestion of an absence, an insistent presence or the imaginary condition of the work of art.nnShowing works by Luc Tuymans, Hugo Heyrman, Michael Borremans, Jan Vanriet, Koen Van den Broek, Cindy Wright, Ronny Delrue, Jan De Vliegher,… Read More