About Sander de Wilde
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 a grandi dans les bois, dans un petit village des Pays-Bas. Son père était un professeur qui s'intéressait aux chenilles et aux empreintes digitales, tandis que sa mère travaillait dans une banque de sperme, où il invitait souvent ses camarades de classe à regarder dans un microscope. Elle avait également une chambre noire à la maison.
Adolescent, Sander enseigne la voile et la planche à voile pendant les vacances. Il a étudié l'anthropologie culturelle, a servi dans l'armée, a travaillé pendant des années dans un magasin d'appareils photo et n'a étudié la photographie que plus tard à l'Académie royale des arts de La Haye.
Sander s'est lancé dans la photographie d'entreprise à Rotterdam en 2002 avant de s'installer en Belgique en 2007.
C'est là qu'il s'est orienté vers le photojournalisme, le portrait et la photographie d'entreprise.
Tout en travaillant dans les médias, il a fréquenté une académie d'art pour élargir ses compétences graphiques et a appris la gravure et la lithographie.
Actuellement, son travail artistique se concentre sur des sujets tels que l'intelligence artificielle, la bureaucratie, l'environnement et la migration, en utilisant des photographies trouvées, son propre travail, l'art graphique, la vidéo et les installations.
Sander est un photographe indépendant heureux, un artiste et un enseignant dans sa propre organisation créative appelée Kunstkot et enseigne pour d'autres organisations telles que Sasasa, Avansa et Mus-e à Bruxelles et dans les environs.
Listen up, live broadcasted on the radio on chickens and photography. (Dutch)
De temps en temps, Sander se retrouve à expliquer avec enthousiasme son travail à la radio ! Oui, vous avez bien entendu : la photographie à la radio... Cela peut sembler plutôt inhabituel, mais de nos jours, nous disposons également de diverses plateformes qui nous permettent de partager nos expériences et nos idées directement en ligne avec un public plus large. Cette fois-ci, il a eu l'occasion de parler en détail de ses photos de poulets, mettant en valeur le charme captivant et la personnalité vivante de ces charmantes créatures. C'est toujours un plaisir de transmettre leurs histoires uniques à travers l'objectif.
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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 Bruxelles Belgique