L’île lointaine — Édition limitée à 15 exemplaires, 2025
Hugo Kevelaer  

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50 x 40 x 0.1 cm 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

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52 x 42 x 3 cm 20.5 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch

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Facing the Atlantic, the island emerges like a distant promise — a green mass battered by the winds, almost unreal in the mist. In the foreground, a few resilient rocks trace a fragile boundary between land and ocean.

Originating from a photographic project dedicated to Rabo de Peixe, at the northern tip of São Miguel, this image captures a territory where the sea shapes every existence. It imposes its rhythms, influences choices, and becomes the silent stage for essential decisions: to stay, to leave, to return.

In this minimalist composition, the horizon embodies both the yearning for elsewhere and the weight of isolation. The island encapsulates everything—attachment, precariousness, but also the pride of a life passed down through generations. The photograph aptly reveals the quiet strength of an island community and its daily struggle to preserve its identity and heritage.

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A sensitive and contemplative piece, where the silence of the landscape tells the essential story.

Landscape

Sea

Portugal

Grey

Green

Hugo Kevelaer, L’île lointaine — Édition limitée à 15 exemplaires

Hugo Kevelaer

Belgium  • 2003

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Hugo Kevelaer is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels. His work falls within the field of social documentary photography, with an intimate, portrait-focused approach. Through his images, he seeks to establish a relationship of trust with the people he photographs in order to reveal a raw and authentic sincerity. The human experience, as well as its profound connection to the environment, occupies a central place in his practice.

His projects generally develop over long periods, requiring patience, reflection, and total immersion in the realities he documents—a working method he fully embraces. In 2022, he finalized his personal project before embarking on a journey across Europe in search of new photographic narratives. A road trip in Romania then marked the starting point for a new body of images.

Among his most significant works is his focus on children and adolescents in foster care—young people separated from their parents and placed in other homes. Through this series, Kevelaer explores notions of memory, belonging, and the invisible traces left by family separation.

For his most recent project, he traveled to the Azores, where he continued his photographic research. The islands' isolation and the power of their landscapes brought a new dimension to his documentary approach, enriching and deepening his visual exploration.

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