ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This picture is made in Hoogstraten, Belgium.
This beguinage exist of 36 housing units, other structures and a church. The foundation was laid in the year 1380. In this photo you see a typical white house. The entire complex is recognized as UNESCO World Heritage.

This Photo is made in february 2022. Europe faced in Winter 2022 four winter storms (Corrie, Dudley, Eunice and Franklin) with heavy rains and wind. The photo is taken during such a storm. It was quite difficult to take a proper picture.

Photo is edited in PS.

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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