By Toon Grobet, European Master in Architectural Photography So there I was last Friday, in Louvain la Neuve, in blue sky weather.  Facing a building on which my client was about to apply its products to renovate a façade. When I arrived around 08:30 am the sunlight was just right to shoot the façade which was […]

This week I got the message from the Black and White Spider that the 3 images I sent in for this year’s contest were nominated. “6,378 entries were received from 69 countries and your work received a high percentage of votes overall. Certainly an achievement, well done!” Nice news in these challenging times. It’s no […]

A Covid story. At the start of the Covid debacle I got the challenge via DAPh (Dutch Architectural Photographers) to come up with two images of Dutch canals that could be printed 2,94 m high and 36 m wide in 100 dpi. It would serve to decorate the full length and height of a corridor […]

Als architectuurfotograaf die enkel het beste voor zijn klanten wil werk ik ondertussen al meer dan een jaar met een uitzonderlijke camera. De Phase IQ4. Zonder in detail te gaan, alhoewel, deze camera heeft een resolutie van maar liefst 150 megapixels. Als architectuurfotograaf die enkel het beste voor zijn klanten wil werk ik ondertussen al […]

My images become cheaper by the day. Over the last 25 years I made several case studies on how long customers use the photography I meticulously crafted for them. It ranges from 5 to 23 years up till now. Let’s take Designcenter De winkelhaak/ House of C in Antwerp for example.In the year 2002 I […]

Lava architects asked me to shoot community center De Rinck. In Brussels/ Anderlecht. A very complex project they worked on for many years . Last month it was completed. During a walk through, with one of the partner architects, I sensed his weary feeling towards the project. So I set out to give him a […]

Theunisbrug on a Sunday stroll.

click here for the English version   2019, with a new year comes a new resolution   Om mijn klanten een niet te evenaren beeldkwaliteit te kunnen aanbieden en om de laatste en beste technologische ontwikkelingen te volgen, wordt mijn Phase One IQ3 100MP digitale rug vervangen door de nieuwste IQ4 150 MP met een resolutie […]

  klik hier voor de Nederlandstalige versie A few months ago I had a meeting with a company that has been a client since the beginning of my career. They told me that they still use the pictures I shot for them 19 years ago in their campaigns and communication: “Because they are timeless and […]

click here for the English version   Enkele maanden geleden zat ik in een vergadering met een bedrijf dat al van in het begin van mijn carrière klant bij me is. Ze vertelden me dat ze beelden die ik meer dan 20 jaar geleden voor hen schoot nog steeds gebruikten in hun reclamecampagnes en communicatie. […]