
The Art Of Meeting
18 years of my life were necessary for me to understand what made me vibrate, what made me deeply happy, what I wanted to live for: Photography. When I have my camera in my hands, I am someone else, and somewhere else. Everything becomes even more beautiful, more real, more authentic.
I see photography as a meeting tool. Thanks to it, we encounter in a unique way the subject that we are led to capture. When they are animals, we pay enormous attention to their every move, we communicate with them. In some inexplicable way, we put ourselves in a wild state, following their energies and auras to dance to their rhythm. When it comes to gentle nature, we follow its calm and peaceful state by photographing it. We become the wisdom that nature offers us every day. As far as humans are concerned, photography is for me the only universal language, that everyone understands, through which everyone can communicate and transmit messages.
Truly encountering the life around us. Telling stories through photography. Exchange a unique moment with the subject. Capturing everyone’s authenticity to share with the world. That's my photography.
Archibald Smets