About Sander de Wilde
Discover Sander de Wilde: Photographer and Graphic Artist
Sander de Wilde is a Brussels-based photographer working across editorial, portrait, and corporate photography. His images appear in international media and capture both the precision of journalism and the emotional charge of fine art.
He collaborates with magazines, NGOs, and cultural institutions, creating visual stories that reveal the human side of politics, culture, and daily life. In his commercial work, he delivers authentic portraits and event coverage for companies and individuals in Brussels and beyond.
As an artist, de Wilde explores the boundaries between photography, graphic art, and painting. His free work includes experimental photo series and etchings, exhibited in Belgium and abroad.
With a versatile practice grounded in curiosity and craftsmanship, Sander de Wilde bridges documentary truth and visual imagination — whether shooting for Le Monde, The Guardian, or a small Brussels startup.
Website: www.sanderdewilde.com
Portraits: www.portraits.brussels
Art: www.sanderdewilde.be
On Sander; passionate photographer, teacher and artist
Sander grew up in the woods, in a small village in the Netherlands. His dad was a professor interested in caterpillars and fingerprints, while his mom worked at a sperm bank, where he often invited his classmates to look through a microscope. She also had a darkroom at home.
As a teenager, Sander taught sailing and windsurfing during holidays. He studied Cultural Anthropology, served in the army, worked at a camera store for years, and only later studied photography at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague.
Sander took up corporate photography in Rotterdam in 2002 before moving to Belgium in 2007.
There, he shifted his focus to photojournalism, portrait- and corporate photography.
While working in the media, he attended an art academy to broaden his graphic skills, and learned etching and lithography.
Currently, his artistic work concentrates on topics like Artificial Intelligence, bureaucracy, environment and migration, using found photography, his owwn work, graphic art, video, and installations.
Sander is a happy freelance photographer, an artist and also a teacher at his own creative organisation called Kunstkot .and he teaches for other organisations like Sasasa, Avansa and Mus-e in Brussels and around.
Listen up, live broadcasted on the radio on chickens and photography. (Dutch)
Every now and then, Sander finds himself enthusiastically explaining a little bit about his work on the radio! Yes, you heard that right: photography on the radio… It may sound rather unusual, but these days, we also have various platforms that allow us to share experiences and insights directly online with a wider audience. So this time, he had the opportunity to talk in great detail about his chicken photos, showcasing the captivating charm and vivid personality of these delightful creatures. It’s always a joy to convey their unique stories through the lens.
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What people say about Sanders Photography and his workshops
Artist Statement – Sander de Wilde
I am a photographer and visual artist, based in Brussels since 2007. My practice moves between documentary photography, portrait commissions, painting, printmaking, and installation work. This versatility is not coincidental, but a deliberate way of approaching a central theme from different angles: humanity and its place in a fundamentally chaotic world.
Chaos forms the core of my artistic approach. Not as something negative, but as a source of creativity, tension, and meaning. My work investigates how people navigate this chaos—how order, identity, and beauty can emerge from coincidence, failure, or confrontation.
Photography is often my starting point. For international media and cultural institutions, I create portraits, reportages, and visual stories. This professional practice feeds into my autonomous work, where I explore the boundaries of photography. I do not use the camera as an objective tool, but as a means of questioning, unsettling, and revealing. My images show fragility and absurdity, but also the poetry of everyday life.
Alongside photography, I create graphic work: etchings and paintings that introduce another sense of time. Where photography is direct, printmaking brings slowness, concentration, and the possibility of chance. The imperfections that appear in this process are just as important as the image itself. They highlight the fact that meaning is always in flux.
Brussels is a vital context for my work. The city is complex and layered, with a constant tension between cultures, languages, and realities. This environment informs my artistic research and keeps my work engaged with contemporary issues.
My practice is therefore hybrid: journalistic and autonomous, analogue and digital, direct and layered. I believe that art should not be confined to a fixed form, but gains strength by moving, shifting, and reinventing itself.
The essence of my work lies in creating space for questions. For me, images are not illustrations or answers, but experiences that move, unsettle, and challenge the viewer. My ambition is to share this experience through exhibitions, publications, and collaborations, always seeking new forms to bring chaos, order, and humanity into view.
Let’s work on a new photography project now!
De Wilde Photographic
Ave Emile Max 28
1030 Brussels Belgium