User:ElianVanCutsem2/sandbox

Biography
Elian Van Cutsem (Jette, 09 july 1999) is a 17 years old Belgian photographer. He was about 11 years old when he realized he loved photography. He started to practice photography with his little Canon Ixus He lives in Brussels, where he likes to hang around and shoot around. This can be seen in his series of digital photography: Brussels. He recently did a photoshoot with some girls who are studying Fashion. In this shoot he used a Phase One camera. The results can be seen on his web portfolio: Fashion.

Documentary
Elian first touched his camera in the purpose of doing documentary photography in 2017 (2 April 2017) His idea was to make a documentary about his own life. He saw it as a little experiment and started with 2 photo’s a day, every day. He referenced to the all famous photographer Jamie Livingston who did this with one photo a day. Results of this experiment can be seen in his first book: “people & habits” Now Elian loves documentary photography and loves to experiment with new technologies and new camera’s. After the two weeks were finished he decided to try this again when he goes on vacation and whenever he can. He has not updated his blog farther than this.

Portraits
Elian runs school at VISO (Ghent, Belgium) where he got an assignment in 2014 where he was asked to make portraits of mothers with their child. The first time Elian took any portraits it was as simple as he thought. He picked someone he knows and asked them for a portrait with their child's. But when he (later) discovered how he could play with sharpness ect. he discovered a whole new way of doing things. Soon he’ll publish a new portrait made in the 19th century genre. (So he says in his blog)

Landscape
Landscapes is something that he always loved doing. He loves to make unromantic landscapes. He started doing these kind of photo’s in 2016. He always uses 35mm f/22. His idol in landscape photography is Josef Koudelka.

Links
Official Website Official portfolio 500px account Instagram account Blog