I had no idea, when I won my first award at the age of 11, that my love affair with photography would span my entire life. The passion – which some would call obsession – keeps on growing! Although I have done a lot of portrait work over the years, a telling fact is that the first four rolls of film, I shot with my own camera as a boy, didn’t contain any living being. It was years later that I was able to put my finger on it: to me, photography is always about painting…painting with light. From an early age I was fascinated by color, texture, composition. Maybe that has something to do with my Flemish genes which centuries ago, produced schools of famous painters.