Stephan vanfleteren biography examples
Stephan Vanfleteren is one of Belgium's most renowned photographers.
From to , he worked as a free-lance photographer for the Belgian Journal De Morgen and always worked and invested in his own personal projects..
Stephan Vanfleteren
Belgian photographer
Stephan Vanfleteren (born 1969) is a Belgian photographer, best known for his portraits in black and white and his depictions of Belgium and abroad.
Biography
Stephan Vanfleteren was born in Kortrijk in 1969,[1] and was brought up in Oostduinkerke.[2]: 202 He studied photography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels from 1988 to 1992.[1]
In 1993, while awaiting military service, he made a trip to New York, where he mostly did street photography.
He has described New York as his "entrance ticket" to the profession of photography.[3]
Career
Vanfleteren started out as primarily a photojournalist for the newspaper De Morgen.[4] In this role, he covered, in black and white, stories of the 1990s such as the death of King Baudouin, the protests over the Clabecq ironworks [Wikidata], the Kosovo War, the Rwandan genocide, and the Dutroux affair.[