Belgicum – Head & Heart & Hands of Stephan Vanfleteren

① memo 20190202 ~ Belgicum – Head & Heart & Hands of Stephan Vanfleteren ~ Short videonote ten years ago (handhold and zoomed with Sony DSC-T500) during the conversation of the belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren – on his method and photo project Belgicum : the Belgium in his head & heart – with Edie Peters of PhotoQ Live in the SKVR studio , Sunday February 8 , 2009 — during the Weekend of the Photobook organised by the Leiden University Master Photographic Studies , the website PhotoQ, Kunstenaars en Co, and the Nederlands Fotomuseum – a full weekend at two nearby locations, the SKVR BeeldFabriek (art center) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam

Hotel Window

① memo 20190201 ~ Hotel Window ~ Room at the back of hotel January 2017 in Mechelen city center with the St. Rumbold’s tower in the back , Belgium

Boxcar

① memo 20190131 ~ Boxcar ~ Night outside the Kazerne Dossin museum January 2017 in Mechelen , Belgium

Mechelen Night Lights

① memo 20190130 ~ Mechelen Night Lights ~ In front of cafe ‘t Groot Licht (the big light – reminds me of the dutch saying ‘geen groot licht’ for ‘not really all that smart’ ) January 2017 , Mechelen , Belgium

Guards of Memory

① memo 20190129 ~ Guards of Memory ~ Sculpture ‘les Sentinelles de la Mémoire’ from the Belgian sculptor Nat Neujean ( natneujean.be ) filmed January 26, 2017 in the Kazerne Dossin museum, Mechelen , Belgium

Brussels’ Music Kiosk

① memo 20190128 ~ Brussels’ Music Kiosk ~ Kiosk in the Brussels Park – ‘Royal Park’ – January 2015 in the heart of Brussels

Viviane’s Story ebook

Coming soon , the free ebooklet Viviane’s Story by Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg from Miracles.Media (publisher).
Viviane escaped 75 years ago in the womb of her pregnant mother from the Twentieth Train to Auschwitz.
Isabella Weinreb Castegnier was three-months pregnant that night of the 19th April 1943 in Belgium, when she jumped from the fast moving 20th Train heading for Auschwitz. Isabella escaped with a broken wrist and bruises all over her body, but otherwise without major injuries. Her daughter Viviane – meaning “full of life”, and named so for her will to live and hold tight in her mother’s womb – was born six months later on October 30, 1943.
More on Viviane’s story here in “Escape from Transport XX – to be born 6 months later – Viviane’s story” : https://michelvanderburg.com/2014/04/28/escape-from-transport-xx-to-be-born-6-months-later/ Music : Ameet Kanon singing Ve’Ulai (“And Perhaps”) a capella.
Film ① memo 20190127 ~ Viviane’s Story ebook ~ by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media