ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The photograph comes from 2 combined series under one title: “Stan in Absurdgium”. It is a meaningful English title. “Stan” refers to the photograper’s first name. Absurdgium is a combination of absurdism in Belgium. Absurdgium in this title does not refer to any political ideological ideas.
There is one street-series with a gray coat and one home-series with a yellow T-shirt.
Stan is photographed as a cartoon.

Each photo separately is a story in itself. They are comic stories in the form of an image. It's absurd humor. The subjects in the photos have no logical reasoning. In everyday life one hardly encounters such things legally unless it is in the context of art.

I give no information about the photograph, only the title. The imagination of the viewer matters.

Photographs made in Belgium and edited on PC.

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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