For Vincen Beeckman (b. 1973), collaboration is central. the photographer eschews the one-way photographer-subject relationship that defines so many photographic practices. instead, he largely collaborates with marginalised and vulnerable individuals and provides visibility for communities otherwise unacknowledged.

One of his many objects is a series about Chinese restaurants all over the world: Luxemburg, Iran, USA, Rwanda ... He sits, eats, talks to customers and the staff and in this way he builds a context with interviews, images, texts, personal documents from the people he meets there etc. Thus we get a multi-layered view of people in their daily occupations, their aspirations and how they got in the city, then social position that they are now in.

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https://www.vincenbeeckman.com/infos.html

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