Set Photography

"Comeback" is a 2025 Belgian film written and directed by brothers Jan and Raf Roosens, marking their feature film debut. The lead roles are played by Veerle Baetens, Billie-Louise Vlegels, and Zwangere Guy. Fourteen-year-old Ava has lived with her father since her parents’ divorce. Her mother, Naomi, a former successful techno DJ, suddenly reappears after years away, determined to make a comeback. She drags Ava into the nightclub scene, ignoring the disapproval of Ava’s father, Dominique, who left that world behind. As Naomi struggles to reclaim her place, Ava is pulled in too. She tries to adapt but soon finds herself torn between her parents' opposing worlds, fighting to hold on to her own identity.

What Remains is a short film and dance piece by choreographer Zoë Demoustier, built around a simple and devastating premise: children who are beginning life sharing the stage with older dancers who are leaving it. Working as a still photographer on this production, I moved between the film set and the rehearsal space, documenting both the choreography and the quiet moments between. The result is a body of work that sits at the intersection of set photography and dance documentation, shaped by a piece that asks what the body holds and what it lets go.

Talvez is a confrontation wrapped in a summer melody: the story of someone who has run from everything, and who runs into the past just when she believes she has finally escaped it. Working as a still photographer on this production, I followed that emotional undertow through every scene, looking for the images that held the tension between lightness and unresolved weight. "Talvez você se lembra da minha escuridão." Maybe you only remember my darkness.

"i miss" by blackwave. is a soulful, introspective hip-hop song from their 2022 album No Sleep in LA that explores feelings of nostalgia, loss, and the struggle to remain hopeful during dark times. 

Two individuals explore closeness through movement, and from this endeavour arises a play that involves risk and physical exertion, yet the pursuit of a shared rhythm motivates them to persevere.

This is the dernière, the final performance of Zoë Demoustier's dance piece What Remains. Commissioned to document the full story of the evening, I moved both in front of and behind the stage, following the group and its dynamics from the last rehearsal to the final bow. What you see here is not just a record of a performance but a portrait of a company at the end of something: the particular atmosphere of a last night that everyone in the room knows will not come again.

In a surreal pirate world, I chose for an exclusively analogue captation. Resulting in a more intentional framing and composing of shots par excellence.

When Otto’s boyfriend, Boris, breaks up with him and his best friend Lente leaves the city, he tries to mend his broken heart with fleeting online romances. Determined to rediscover himself, he sets out in search of belonging within Brussels’ queer scene. A seven-episode series brimming with passion and pain, innocence and humor. Created and directed by Stijn Van Kerkhoven. Starring Jonathan Michiels, Jennifer Heylen, Gijs De Corte, Emilie De Roo, and Flor Van Severen. Available on Streamz.

“Het Beste Moet Nog Komen” by Pommelien Thijs is a captivating song and awareness-raising campaign by the VRT and the Flemish government (in 2024) that warns about the dangers of using a mobile phone in traffic. The music video shows how distraction from a smartphone can be fatal, carrying the message: “Don’t let your future be stolen by your phone.”

"beetje bang voor niks" - an educational play by tgmisschien about the abstract topics of time and death.

The Weight of Sand by Daniel Granados, a Syrian theatre director and political refugee based in Antwerp. Together with a group of political refugees, the weight of sand explores the emotional weight of identity, intimacy, and the impossible decisions that come with rebuilding a life far from home.

Tamino and Angèle's "Sunflower" was one of the most visually ambitious music videos I've worked on as a still photographer. The production, directed with a painterly attention to light and landscape, brought both artists together in a setting that felt equal parts earthly and dreamlike. "Sunflower" went on to win the 2024 MIA Award for Best Music Video, a recognition that felt entirely deserved given the care that went into every frame of the production. These set photographs are a record of what it looked like from behind the lens.

Why Panda, Why? a young and upcoming jazz trio with Arne Fivez on the piano, Ymre Denis on the Saxophone and Benjamin Sas on the drums.

Tamino's "The First Disciple" called for something hauntingly intimate. Working as still photographer on this production, I was drawn into a visual world built on shadow, silence and restraint, qualities that run through Tamino's music as much as his imagery. The set photographs here reflect that atmosphere: close, quiet, and deliberately unhurried.

These pictures offer a behind-the-scenes look at Tamino's music video for his latest album's single, 'You Don't Own Me', which tells the story of oppression and freedom. The video features ten dancers, led by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in a house filled with sand. Tamino, representing the search for freedom, struggles to break free from the weight of the sand, symbolized by the ten dancers. They are the force of oppression; they are the concept of time. The pictures capture a dance oscillating between impotence and uprising. It portrays the dancers as a unified mass, stripped of their individual identities, supporting the unique story of the song.

Behind the scenes of The Longing by Tamino. These images were taken in the stillroom, a space designed by Studio Corkinho, quiet and warm. These images capture him the way he tends to exist on set: in his own world, guitar in hand. These set photographs attempt to hold that same duality: the quiet ache of something beautiful that is already passing.