Dirk Braeckman
Portrait

  • Belgium
  • fr
  • en
  • 10'
Dirk Braeckman |Portrait

Synopsis

This capsule-format documentary takes us back in time to the creative world of Dirk Braeckman, in the early days of his experimental practice. The Belgian photographer talks about his work with portraiture and self-portraiture, two genres that for him are a quest for identity. Even then, his photographs had the ashy surface and highly textured character we know today. His charcoal images, as if covered in a veil of black smoke, plunge us into the mysteries of the human soul.

What you will find in this film

An experimental approach • Portraits and self-portraits • A photographic practice influenced by painting • The 1980s • The Belgian photographic scene

A portrait is also a story, but a very long story, a never-ending story.
I think I'll always work with people, with humans. That's something you can never really tie down with your heart.

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DIRK BRAECKMAN : ECHTZEIT ; Berghmans Tamara, Chéroux Clément ; Hopper & Fuchs ; Bellegem ; 2024 
SISYPHE ; Dirk Braeckman ; Le Bal et Éditions EXB ; Paris ; 2014