Vincen Beeckman / Claude & Lilly photography “About five years ago I

“About five years ago I was trying to realise a way where the approach towards the trigger would somehow be directly reflected in the image

Starting from her archive

Due to the great simplicity of both subject and image

stochastic logic of matter—both its crystalline or organic growth and its complex degradation in its environment—that is outside of and contrary to our instrumental control

or why the man and young girl flinch before the camera’s gaze

Vincen Beeckman / Claude & Lilly photography “About five years ago II met Lilly when I was working at the Foire du Midi fair in Brussels, says Claude van Halen of his late partner, Liliane Maes. I met her on the 14th of July 1995. The boss of a bar asked me, Claude do you want to go with her because her man is beating her? I said yes. I even left my job for her. I went with her and and we stayed together for so long, for 23 years. Lilly passed away on 6th June 2018, Claude by her side till the end. The romance between