ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In my third year of photography I had to follow art history. I got an instruction to make a photograph that gave an image what Tradition and resistance means. In this picture the tradition means that you take a portrait. But on the other hand The persons stands not in front of you. You can't react whit it. That is the resistance.

This picture is made whit an analoge camera. The film is a Kodak TMax 400. The rest I don't remember again.

The picture was made by my mother but I made the details of how to photograph it and the technical details like, diaphragm and shutterspeed. She just followed my orders.

AUTHOR
I was born in the Eightees. During my yought I travelled since my 4 years with my parents and brother to different countries in the world. I had always a compact film camera with one film of 36 pictures with me. First I took only the pictures I liked. Years later I started to photograph with more experiments.

When I was 25 years old, I followed for 5 years photography studies in evening class. The course took place in Hoogstraten.

I have also a bachelor law that I succeeded in the university of Antwerp. I would like to achieve a master degree in law, that's for the future.

Recently I finished a 2 years specialisation course photography at the art academy in Hoogstraten. I had to work on a project. In 2018 I won a honorable mention in monoawards category fine arts. The title of the work is tradition and resistance. This work was the start of a great project that I realized in a project with title: Stan in Absurdgium. This project consists of two series: a streetseries and homeseries.
It's absurd Belgian humour.

Even that I worked on a project, I can't live life to the fullest. I suffer from a disease that started in my childhood. That's why I do photography for fun and not for a living. I do not photograph as a profession.

I have a own Pinterest page: Christiaan Cuyckens Photography.

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