On the Line, 1994
It was on the border line between Belgium and France that, from 1992 to 1994, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt cast an ironic but rarely solicitous eye on his fellow men. He brought back images of them in dense black and white. Among which some will remain icons telling the history of a territory and that of the miners’ guild. He speaks to us, in his prints, of men and children, of the gray that sticks to the facades, of the tenderness of a dog for his mistress, of an ordinary world without mawkishness. Because the look of Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt is one that does not wear out. His photographs are now classics.