Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt

This retrospective monograph presents more than 350 images by Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, a Belgian photographer who died in 2015. In nearly 40 years of simple and obsessive practice, with an exemplary economy of means, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt created one of the most singular works of contemporary documentary photography, probing with humour and concern the derision of our human condition and that which we impose on the animal kingdom. This book brings together his emblematic images as well as numerous unpublished or little-known photographs from his archives. It is accompanied by texts by art historians Xavier Canonne and Michel Poivert, and a long portrait of the photographer written by his wife Mary van Eupen, combining artistic references and intimate memories.