2022

Kunstroute Boutersem (4th edition) - Church of Butsel, 23 - 24/04

2021

Winner Siena International Creative Photo Award (Italy) @ the historical Teatro dei Rinnovati di Siena - October 24 - December 5

Exhibition "Zeezuchten" Bib. Canticleer De Haan (Belgian coast), Grotestraat 10,  October 16 - November 30

Exposé "Zeezuchten"/ "Losing Our Minds" - Breedbeeld & Fotokring Argos Zwevezele, CC De Wissel, Tramstraat 8 - October 15 @ 8pm

Exhibition "We'll meet again" in concert with Bart Watté, Carlo Willems & Koen Wilmaers Percussion- Church of Butsel, 3370 Boutersem, Pastoriestraat 81 - August 22 @ 11am-5pm with support of Flanders Department of Culture, Youth & Media

Exhibition "We'll meet again"  in concert with Bart Watté, Carlo Willems & Koen Wilmaers Percussion- Church of Butsel, 3370 Boutersem, Pastoriestraat 81 - August 21 @ 1pm-5pm with support of Flanders Department of Culture, Youth & Media 

Exhibition Rotterdam Photo Festival 2021, The Netherlands,  June 30 - July 4 (Theme: Planet Human)

Exhibition "Buiten zinnen/Losing Our Minds" with Benno Barnard & The river curls around the town - Maagdenhuismuseum, Lange Gasthuisstraat 33, Antwerp (Belgium) - June 28 - August 15

Book + cd presentation "Buiten zinnen/Losing Our Minds" - with Benno Barnard , Geert van Istendael & The river curls around the town - Maagdenhuismuseum, Lange Gasthuisstraat 33, Antwerp (Belgium) - June 27 @ 2 pm

Exhibition Photo Place Gallery, ("In celebration of trees") - Middlebury (Vermont), USA - June 25 - July 16

Photographer in Focus with my series "Losing Our Minds" @ International Photo Festival Pelt (Belgium), "Lens op de mens"  - June 6 - Sept. 30

Exhibition PhotoPlace Gallery ("Composed") - Middlebury (Vermont) - USA - May 28 - June 18

Selected for the "Stories: Narrative Photography" exhibition @ PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, Budapest (Hungary), May 6 - 26

Selected for the 4th Annual Intern. 'New Horizons: Landscapes 2021' exhibition in 3 Square Art, Fort Collins, Colorado (USA)- April 23-May 21

On the Shortlist Siena International Photo Awards 2021 - Winners to be announced April 23

Nominee for the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards Competition (People) with my series "Losing Our Minds" - April 2021

Selected for International Art Fair Venice (Italy) - April 1 - May 7

"Nieuwe Gaanderijen Oostende" - The best 27 photos for "Stadsfotograaf Oostende", judged by S. Vanfleteren & J. Kets - March 15 - May 10

Solo Exhibition in "All-About-Photo" (California) curated by Sandrine Hermand Grisel - March 1 to March 31

"Memory exhibition" @ SE Center for Photography Greenville (South Carolina) - USA - March 

 Director's Award for the "Life" exhibition @ A Smith Gallery, Texas, Feb. 26 - April 11

Exhibition PhotoPlace Gallery ("Photo Noir") - Middlebury (Vermont) - USA - Feb. 26 - March 19

Exhibition "Nature art show" @ Grey Cube Gallery Berlin - February

IPA (International Photography Awards), Honorable Mention with "The sea watcher"  (Losing Our Minds), Los Angeles

APA (Annual Photography Awards) Winner (Category: Street) with "Losing Our Minds", London

"Black & White Art Exhibition" @ Art Room Gallery (Berlin), Germany - January/February

Exhibition "Shades of Black & White" @ SE Center for Photography, Greenville (USA) - Feb. 5 - Feb. 21

Exhibition A Smith Gallery, Texas - "Chair" - Jan. 8 - Feb. 21

"Faces Art Exhibition" @ Art Room Gallery (Berlin),  Germany - January

Exhibition Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury (Vermont) - "Finding the light" - 2020, Dec.31 - 2021, Jan.21

2020

"Travel Photographer of the Year 2020", Best Single Image (category: People of the World)

Selected for the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards (UK)

Selected for The International Art Fair Venice 2021, April 1 - May 7, 2021 - "The Body Language"

Finalist "Shades of Black & White exhibition @ The SE Center for Photography, Greenville  (South Carolina) - USA

Finalist A Smith Gallery's "chair" exhibition (Texas) - 2021 Jan.4 - Feb.21

Juror's Award for "Foggy Flemish Landscape" in the exhibition 'Finding the Light', Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

Selected for the Life Framer Collection

Finalist @ Neutral Density Photography Awards (Photojournalism/Story) 2020, United Kingdom,  with my series "Losing Our Minds"

Finalist @ ND Photography Awards (Street photography) 2020, United Kingdom,  with my series "Dreams behind bars"

Finalist "Photo of the Day" (November 2) @ Don't Take Pictures magazine, New York with my series "Losing Our Minds"

Finalist for "Portals: Windows, Mirrors,Doors" - exhibition in the PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury (Vermont) - Nov. 26 - Dec.26

Finalist "A Picture Show" (Image & Identity) @ the Black Box Gallery (Portland) with my series "Losing Our Minds"

Selected with "Rider on a horse"@ Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica  (California)

Exhibition Zinkae Fotofest "In-Between" - Borluut Castle, Sint-Denijs-Westrem (Belgium) - Sept. 25-27 + Oct. 2-4

Project "Perdu/Retrouvé - Rectory Meldert /Hoegaarden (Belgium), exhibition 05+06/09 - 12+13/09 - 19+20/09

Book presentation "Zeezuchten" (Sea sighs), Meldert/Hoegaarden (Belgium), 05+06 +12+13+19+20/09

Winner Life Framer Photo Contest 2020 (Theme: "Civilization") with my series "Losing our minds", judged by Tate Modern's Curator of International Art and Photography Emma Lewis

Winner @ 3. Fotowettbewerb des Museums Synagoge Gröbzig/ Germany  (Thema: Jüdisch-Christliche Verbindungen in unserem Umfeld)

Finalist Atlanta Photography Group in the Tula Art Center ("Strange time") with "Losing our minds" (Atlanta) - Sept 17 - Oct 10

Finalist A Smith Gallery's "light" exhibition (Texas) - Oct 31 - Nov. 15

"Losing our minds" published in "EYE-Photo Magazine" # September 2020 (Austria)

Winner Antwerp International Photography Festival - exhibition @ FOMU + Handelsbeurs Antwerpen (Belgium) - Sept. 1 - 27

Selected as one of the best contemporary photographers worldwide at the American site All-About-Photo

Selected as one of the 25 Winners at the All-About-Photo Contest B&W - Published in AAP Magazine #12 (California)

Winner Open Call 2020 ("Fine Art") Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles) - printed in the Musée Magazine + exhibition Fall 2020

Shortlist Athens Photo Festival 2020 (Greece) - exhibition @ Benaki Museum - Pireos 138 (Athen) - Sept.16 - Nov.15

Finalist PhotoPlace Gallery ("Landscape") - exhibition in Middlebury (Vermont) - 2020 August 20 - Sept. 18

2.Prize Vienna International Photo Awards 2020 ("Free subject") - exhibition @ Galerie LIK (Vienna) - 2020 Sep.6 - Dec.20

Finalist New York Center for Photographic Art - exhibition in NY - "Luminosity -The beauty of light" 2020

Finalist Passepartout Photography Prize 2020 - Rome (Italy) - exhibition @ Piazza di Pietra Gallery (Rome) - January 2021

Finalist Photo Festival InCadaqués 2020 - Cadaqués (Spain) - exhibition in Cadaqués 2020 - Oct 15 - Oct 25

Laureate "Grote Prijs Sociale Fotografie" (Theme: "You can't cancel Spring") - exhibition Ghent 

Belgian Winner @ EISA Maestro Photo Contest (Theme: Movement) - Published in "Focus Magazine" 7/8 - 2020 (The Netherlands) 

Selected with "Losing our minds" @ Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica (California)

Prix du Jury du 11ième Concours de Photographie (theme: "The third age"), France (Toulouse)

2019

Finalist  "Fotonale Brugge" (thema: Feesten), exhibition 15/12 - 15/01/2020

Finalist "Een wereld vol spreuken en gezegden", Breugel year, exhibition FedOS Brussel, 06/12 - 21/02/2020

Exhibition Foto Gamma Leuven, "Different views", 15/11 - 01/12

Exhibition Zinkae Fotofest - Palmarium of the Botanical Garden, Ghent, 14 - 22/09

4th prize  (3634 entries) CEWE Photo Challenge 2019 "Made in Belgium"

Fotogroep Antwerpen Vzw - presentation of own work, 10/09

Breedbeeld exhibition  "Lens op de Mens",  Dommelhof Pelt,  06/07 - 15/09 . Curator: Yirka De Brucker           

Finalist International Photo Festival Pelt, exhibition "Lens op de Mens",  02/06 - 30/09, selected with 10 photos in the streets of Pelt

Kunstroute Boutersem (third edition) - Church of Butsel, 21 - 22/09

Benefit exhibition "One team against cancer", Dalemhof Bierbeek, 31/08

Exhibition "Kunst in de kerk", Attenrode, 8-10/06

Exhibition "Kunstroute Werchter", 4-5/05

Exhibition "Amateurama Leuven", Tweebronnen Louvain, 24-28/04

Exhibition "Zeezucht" , CC Bredene. With L.P. Crombé ( painter of the Latem School) and poet Anne Meerbergen, 27/04 - 02/06   

Exhibition GC De Bosuil Overijse, 14-17/03

3th prize  (4658 entries) , NRC Handelsblad, (theme: "Your best photo of 2018")

2018

Prize winner @ NRC Handelsblad, Photo contest (theme "Old")

Selected for LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards 2019

Exhibition Fotonale Brugge (theme: Landscape), selected among the 120 best photos (2650 entries), 15/12 - 15/01/2019

Exhibition Foto Gamma Leuven, Different views, 23/11 - 02/12

Guest photographer @ FotoMagazine APL 26 

Exhibition "A moment", Tongeren, St. Ursula chapel, with Lieve Blancquaert,  Michiel Hendrickx a.o., 06-30/09

Prize winner Photo Festival Vilvoorde (theme: Het gelaat van de straat), exhibition 15/09 - 15/10

Photo and poetry book "Als de klaprozen..." about World War I 

Prize winner Photo contest Linx+ (theme: My vision of the future) , October

"Photographer of the week"  @ 1x.com 

Exhibition Stephan Bar Art Gallery, Knokke, Zeedijk 629, July-October

Exhibition Gallery Marco Titucci, De Haan, Zeedijk 5, May - September

Kunstroute Boutersem (second edition) , Church of Butsel, 27-29/04

Permanent exhibition Art Gallery Herent, from 09/03/2018 until 01/2020

2017                                                                                                                

Prize winner Photo contest Linx+  ( theme: De bewogen mens), November

Foto Gamma Leuven, Different views, 24/11 - 03/12

International Photo Festival Overpelt, "Lens op de Mens" (Spotlight on people), 18/06 - 30/09

Exhibition "Cuba libre" @ AST77, Tienen, 06/05-08/06 with poems of Anita Buvens & Gui Nijs, city poet of Tienen

Kunstroute Tienen, 06/05

Amateurama Leuven, 30 CC, Cultuurcentrum Louvain, 20-23/04

2016

Member of 1x.com

Prize winner Photo contest Linx+ (theme: Protest)

Exposé Photo book "Cuba libre" in association with "Breedbeeld",  Leuven, 16/11

Kunstroute Boutersem (First edition) , CC Boutersem, 11+18+24/09

Exhibition "Cuba libre", Gallery Expotempo, Knokke, Zeedijk 670, introduced by the Minister of Culture, Sven Gatz, 03/09-01/12

2015                                                                                                              

Prize winner Photo contest Linx+ (theme: Children of hope), October

Exhibition "No time to verloes", Gallery Marco Titucci, De Haan, Zeedijk 5, 01/09 - 01/12

Exhibition"No time to verloes", Gallery Expotempo, Knokke, Zeedijk 670, introduced by the Minister of Culture Sven Gatz, 01/05-31/08 

Exposé  "No time to verloes", Viewfinders English speaking Photography Club Brussels, 20/05

Fotonale Brugge (theme: Human being) , 15/12/2014- 15/01/2015

Exhibition Fotogroep Park-Heverlea, Heverlee, 31/01 - 01/02

Itinerant exhibition "Groen-Grijs" on 10 locations in Flanders.  Organisation: Breedbeeld, 15/08/2014 - 30/12/2015