Halles Saint-Géry / Sint Gorikshallen, Brussel. May 2015. Welcome…

… to this, our third exhibition held in the glorious Halles Saint-Géry / Sint Gorikshallen. Viewfinders is a club that brings Belgians and foreign residents together around a shared passion for the photographic image, using English as a "Lingua Franca". Our first exhibition was very much in the lines of "Brussels as seen by its ex-pat community", while our second - "You Are [not] Here" put Brussels firmly at the centre of the globe as the start and end-point of a journey around the world, to places where many of the ex-pat members hail from. With this third exhibition, we come again full circle to put the city of Brussels at the very centre, giving the photographers room to express their love of this city that is their home: a city that has played a pivotal role throughout European and world history and continues to do so today. Its open and cosmopolitan culture has drawn people from far and wide, to settle here (some of our non-Belgian members have been here longer than some of our Belgian members!) and fall for the charms of this wonderful city. The reasons for falling in love with Brussels are as varied and diverse as the artists describing them here, for you, in a collection of photographs frozen in time.
We hope you enjoy it!

Alun Foster
President, Viewfinders club.

Re-exhibiting in Gasthuisberg Hospital, Leuven. March-April 2016

After the original exhibition in May 2015 in Brussels, Viewfinders was offered the opportunity to re-exhibit the images at the "Gasthuisberg" academic hospital in Leuven, for the months of March and April 2016. Gasthuisberg is a very large teaching hospital - the largest in Belgium. With between 10.000 and 20.000 people on the site, it is often compared to being a town in its own right. The hospital regularly displays arts in its corridors and waiting areas. These are greatly appreciated by patients, staff and visitors alike, being a welcome distraction from the rigours of hospital life that is, by the nature and calling of the hospital, often stressful. We were therefore very proud to be allowed to exhibit there. Some 17 new images were produced to complement the original set, bringing the total to 58 prints by in total 25 photographers, in the beautiful "Chromaluxe" process.