Borderline: Paul D'Haese

With Borderline, the Belgian photographer Paul D'Haese explores the coastal strip from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre. His photographs of the chaotic built-up landscape with its blind walls, parapets and fences ironically depict this coastline as a new Atlantic wall . In this, they form a masterful visual fable about the desert that can become a country that closes itself off. The images question the forms of a heterogeneous building, the sediment of human activity. In particular it offers a beautiful metaphor for an approach that invites in-depth reading rather than surface contemplation. The project obtained 'Le Prix de la Ministre de la Culture' May 2021 Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi. In English and French. AUTHOR: Paul D'Haese (°1971) is a Belgian photographer. Exhibitions include: 2018, April, image BLC 2017 from "stuffy shell" series, Somerset House, Londen (UK), Sony World Photography Awards '18, "belgopolis", PhotoBrussels Festival, "City", Hangar Art Center, Elsene/Ixelles Brussels (B), Eyes on Mainstreet, 5th edition, Wilson Outdoor Photofestival, Wilson, North-Carolina, (US). 2020, Variations paysagères , Laurent & Laurent Galerie, NIce (FR), Borderline , 18th Prix National Photographie Ouverte, at the Museum of Photography, Charleroi (B), Unseen, Amsterdam (NL), Booth 59, Hangar Photo Art Center (B). 2021, borderline , Brugge Foto, Bruges (B), borderline , CC De Steiger, Menen (B), replica falsifica , Hangar Photo Art Center, Elsene / Ixelles-Brussels (B). SELLING POINTS: . Following part of the French coastal strip, Borderline professionally documents the surrounding architecture, obscure buildings and the landscape 168 colour illustrations