Continuing through August 13, 2016
Dirk Braeckman is a Belgian photographer currently living in Ghent who has exhibited nationally and internationally since the mid-1980s. His black and white photographs are purposely dark in tonality giving the images enigmatic and mysterious air. His depictions of people, places and things are printed at such low contrast levels that they seem solarized, and it is often difficult to distinguish the foreground from the background. Braeckman has become a master at manipulating his imagery in the darkroom, where he often transforms a banal subject into something delicate, evocative and extraordinary. By minimizing contrast and keeping his images dark, gray and at times out of focus, he transforms the ordinary and the visible — that which can be photographed— into something other-wordly. Braeckman remarks, “Photography is, for me, an almost obsessive attempt to scan, in my own way, everything around me, everything I meet, driven by the desire to give order to chaos. With or without a camera”
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