He has been selected several times for national and international competitions (LensCulture, CEWE Photo Challenge, Fotonale Brugge). Between 20 he has published 4 photo books ("No time to Verloes", "Cuba libre", "Zeezuchten" and "Losing Our Minds/Buiten zinnen") and has exhibited in several galleries in the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. As a photographer, he studied at CVO Louvain (Belgium). (Germany), is a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy and General Manager of Verloes Languages & Training. Some of his (street) photos are also spiced with a touch of humor and it's difficult to put him in a box.Įddy Verloes studied literature, philosophy and arts at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.B. He is always focused on the decisive moment and shoots with his soul, not with his camera. The wandering man looking for his own way, reflecting how to deal with himself, the others and the earth.Īs a visual storyteller, he creates a poetic and mysterious world in his mainly black and white photos that sometimes balance between realism and surrealism. I consciously placed "Statues in the storm" (photo 11) last because I think the symbolism is the greatest: people become statues, as it were, puny - sometimes pathetic - beings in the universe. Ultimately, we are so dependent on the forces of nature that we cannot help but be guided by the flow. In group we are strong, we go for it and we climb the highest mountains. More than ever we realize through this crisis that man is a social animal and it is difficult to stay in his room. Some idealists throw themselves completely and don't care about anything. Within these young people you see in my images "Einzelgänger", those who only try to compete against society. They symbolize spring that starts anew every year. The young people in my photos are of course a symbol of change / revolution / going against the tide. They could take place anywhere in the world and not just on the Belgian coast where these photos were taken in one day and within one hour. My images however try to transcend the anecdotal and in that sense they not only reflect what is going on with the corona crisis in 2020, but they try to be a universal expression. Are those figures real or staged in my photos? Sometimes we as a layman have the same reaction: is this the real world in which we live or is this madness / surrealism? These are photos of Hassidic Jews who can enjoy their freedom in an unorthodox way in the storm (of their lives) and escape the lockdown. It is sometimes difficult to draw the line between realism and surrealism, between reality and madness. In my series "Losing our minds" I consciously show only young people who are looking for themselves, for the meaning of life and the relationship between man and nature. I want this poetic-philosophical reflection to speak through my images in these corona times. We have treated our Mother Earth too lightly, demanded too much of her in our egoism. Fear tries to overpower him, he freezes, starts to reflect on the world and on the punishment that Mother Nature seems to send us. Man loses his mind because a stormy situation presents itself that is new and challenging for him. My series "Losing our minds" was taken at the beginning of the corona crisis 2020: a bizarre, but extremely fascinating period.
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