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April 29, 2009

Another famous Belgian

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We all know the parlour game, Can you name ten famous Belgians? I once tried this with some Belgians and they weren’t very impressed (although they couldn’t name ten either).

We all know the parlour game, Can you name ten famous Belgians? I once tried this with some Belgians and they weren’t very impressed (although they couldn’t name ten either).

It might be time to add another to this list: Eric Ceccarini, whose photographic exhibition was previewed last night at the RAC on Pall Mall, in association with the good offices of the Belgian Embassy. As the title might suggest, ‘Amnios’ is about the thin skin between conception and birth, life and us. There is also a political relevance with the struggle of Flanders and Walloon under the skin of Belgium.

Eric’s photos feature models in silhouette, though often they press up against the partition, so we end up with images which are slight and indistinct at one point, yet clear and dark at another. His use of natural light means they are more painterly than you might expect from a photographer too.


 
Amnios is almost the antithesis of Eric’s award-winning work for L’Oreal, Levi’s and Saab, where a clear image is the point: here he is happy to explore more abstract concepts, using his technique to question just what it is that keeps us from reality and whether such insulation is helpful or suffocating.

It seems that Eric is simultaneously bad at getting under the skin – and very good at it too.

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