U.M.-V.P.-16,2016

Dirk Braeckman is a Belgian photographer known for large-format black-and-white images that investigate the materiality of photographic emulsion and the ambiguity of representation. Working primarily with gelatin silver prints, he produces densely textured, often obscured compositions that resist conventional legibility, treating the photograph as an object rather than a transparent window. His practice engages with postwar European abstraction while maintaining a photographer's engagement with light, surface, and chance.