They defy life, deviate codes and rules, put their guts in their lens and their hearts are laid bare to the wide angle. They do not show what they saw, but how they felt. They look for the magic moment, instinctive, incisive. This is what you expect to see in Eyes Wild Open, an exhibition at the Botanique Museum, in Brussels; and it is what you find. Like Anders Petersen says: “There is no big difference between living and taking pictures. […] That’s my approach. You are at the heart of life, living, making love, eating, sleeping – and photography is one of them.” Curator of this show, the French photographer Marie Sordat dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, but it is photography that guided all her life choices. “The photography books were my real teachers. Since always at the heart of my work as a photographer, I wanted to teach and show the work of others.” A journey of five years, with her guts, just for her passion, in which Marie Sordat has made her own family. “It’s my declaration of love to photography, even though my heart goes in many other directions than this shaking photograph,” she says. And it’s about the heart for sure.
Cilou de Bruyn
Cilou de Bruyn is an author and photographic consultant. She lives and works in Brussels in Belgium.
Eyes Wild Open
Through April 22, 2018
Musée Le Botanique
Rue Royale 236
1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Belgium
Livre publié par André Frère
39,50€
http://www.andrefrereditions.com/livres/nouveautes/eyes-wild-open/
