Eric van den Berg

Graphic designer and psycho-pedagogue by training, since 1990 I have held various positions in higher artistic education. Graduated in photography in 2016, I quickly focused on what makes and what photography is today. Like most of my contemporaries, I am a trigger bulimic, Joan Fontcuberta speaks in these terms of the “homo photographicus”: “The one who takes pictures everywhere and all the time […] we are obsessed with image, for pleasure, to communicate, to document us, to build our identity… ”. From this way of photographing, disalienated from the technique, "post-photographic" questions are thus posed through a plastic approach: the relationship to time, space, subjects, the gaze posed from afar or up close, the use of digital technology, the questions of the "good photo", those linked to chance or accident, to the image taken with my Nikon or taken on the Internet… What interests me above all, beyond the pleasure taken in taking photos and editing them in images, it is the relationship that viewers maintain with my images: from the one who looks at the painting from a distance to the one who wants to master the detail who will understand the accident, will see chance, unmask deceptions, find a note of humor or a