My name's axel
The dissappearance
Please bare with me as this story is not an easy one.
I was invited by an aquaintance to join him on an organised photoshoot.The photoshoot was apparently held every year and organised by a dutch photography service run by dutch photographer Hugo fermont (www.fotograficus.nl)
Photographers and models could get together in a small village called "Doel" in Belgium and which lies close to the dutch border in the midst of the great Harbour of Antwerp ( Belgium) (Antwerpen in Flemish/Dutch).Now this village is about to dissapear and a big part of it has already been demolished.Now you have to take in account that people still live there ! If your interested in the perrils of the people of "Doel" and in the turmoil it caused in the belgian press and with the public oppinion see : www.doel2020.org
The village has to dissapear because of the expansion of the port of Antwerp.
Exactly the same has happened in the late fifties, early sixties with other villages in the vicinity of Doel.
So history always repeats itself and lately it does so faster and faster.
Suggestions have been made to turn Doel in an art/artist's village and preserve it thusly : www.kunstdoel.net/en
The dissappearance
Please bare with me as this story is not an easy one.
I was invited by an aquaintance to join him on an organised photoshoot.The photoshoot was apparently held every year and organised by a dutch photography service run by dutch photographer Hugo fermont (www.fotograficus.nl)
Photographers and models could get together in a small village called "Doel" in Belgium and which lies close to the dutch border in the midst of the great Harbour of Antwerp ( Belgium) (Antwerpen in Flemish/Dutch).Now this village is about to dissapear and a big part of it has already been demolished.Now you have to take in account that people still live there ! If your interested in the perrils of the people of "Doel" and in the turmoil it caused in the belgian press and with the public oppinion see : www.doel2020.org
The village has to dissapear because of the expansion of the port of Antwerp.
Exactly the same has happened in the late fifties, early sixties with other villages in the vicinity of Doel.
So history always repeats itself and lately it does so faster and faster.
Suggestions have been made to turn Doel in an art/artist's village and preserve it thusly : www.kunstdoel.net/en