Photofestival - Group show in Ostend, Belgium

The International Photobiennial Ostend combines various indoor exhibitions on conceptual and contemporary photography with a series of high-profile interventions in the city. The route with work by more than thirty leading (inter)national photographers runs from Fort Napoleon to Mu.ZEE. As a theme, curator Stephane Verheye chose '(IN)FLUENCE', focusing on the connection with other art forms. Think sculpture, film, religion or painting that are a source of inspiration for the beautiful contemporary and conceptual work of the art photographers. Each photographic work in the International Photobiennale Ostend will reflect that theme in a unique, contemporary and idiosyncratic way.

The photographs of Karel Fonteyne are fairy tales of silence ... before the storm. Because just like in any other fairy tale, there is always a sense of danger and alienation. Fonteyne has never been a snapshot photographer. His photos are extremely well thought-out, nothing is what it seems at first sight, every composition is unexpected. He avoids the obvious. This complexity, the use of colours and his subjects are what make Fonteyne a photographic painter.

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