Articles and Features
2023
Frédéric Schmiliver ressuscite l'adolescence à Kolovare, Fisheye, France (FR)
Vivement l'été prochain, Vice, Belgium (FR)
Verlangend naar volgende zomer, Vice, Belgium (NL)
Exhibitions
2023
11th Biennale en Condroz, Belgium (group exhibition)
Belgium-based documentary photographer
I believe that photography, like cinema, is a universal art form that should be intuitively apprehensible by anyone, without any code or particular knowledge or understanding of the contemporary art world.
Born in 1980, based in Brussels, Belgium. Graduate of the Agnès Varda Brussels school of visual arts.
My work has been published in Fisheye magazine and Vice Belgium.
Starting in 2006, I spent 15 years shooting street photography exclusively on film, both in colour and black and white.
In 2020, I started producing photographic essays with the objective of exhibiting and publishing my work in renowned art galleries and photography publications.
I developed my attraction towards documentary photography by watching the World Press Photo award and the work of some renowned photographers such as Ian Teh (The Vanishing), Christopher Anderson (On a Haitian Boat), Gilles Peress (Derry, Ireland) or Belgian photographer Cédric Gerbehaye (Congo in Limbo).
Therefore, my approach toward photography is of crafting essays in the classical sense: essays that tell a story and are connected to reality.
To this date, I have produced three essays.
My first essay, “Le temps retrouvé” (Time regained), is an intimate tale of my family life during the 2020 lockdown. For “Winter Sleep”, a street photography essay, I spent six months catching the atmosphere of my home town of Brussels during the “covid” winter of 2020-2021.
“Kolovare”, my best known work, is a long term photographic project about youth and summer.
Ongoing projects include a portrait of Belgium through the Brussels-Charleroi Canal.
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