Robin Vandenabeele is a photographer based near Bruges in Belgium. While traveling in Europe and working as a roadie, a camera became a staple that Robin carried with him to document all the places he visited and moments he experienced.
After seeing the first results from an experimental in-camera double exposure technique, he became quickly interested in the further graphic possibilities and has since not stopped to create series of juxtaposed architectural, city and landscape images using both film and digital cameras on various locations visited around the world and at home.
Being an autodidact in the field of photography has allowed him to use a non-traditional approach to the image making process, resulting in abstract and highly graphic images that surprise the viewer with their morphed representation of reality. The familiarity of the scenes combined with the surreal intervention provided by the multiple exposure technique offers a unique new take on sore old sights. No image manipulation programs were used to alter any of the compositions.
On a technical note, every artwork is made by overlapping two consecutive exposures in the camera, this can be achieved by not winding the film roll or instructing the digital camera to combine exposures. Two consecutive exposures are made with a 180° rotation of the camera in between shutter releases and are carefully aligned by hand.
Robin’s artworks can be displayed and will make sense as single artworks but are almost always part of small mini-series that could explore anything from a landscape or skyline to building details.
