Yves Ullens

Photography is and has always been at the very heart of my work and for me it is the ideal medium to express and share emotions. I take a deliberately aesthetic and sensorial approach to bring wellbeing to the audience. And having also the spirit of a scientist, I enjoy pushing its boundaries ever farther and further!

The particular energy brought by light and colour is vital for me. Following my near-death experience in my childhood, light naturally later became the central theme and the driving force as well of all my creations.

Photography gives me the opportunity to explore my feelings with light and colour through abstraction. By making my camera travel in time and space, I create fairy-like imaginary worlds mostly from ordinary objects. I see photography as a painter and I use my camera as a brush. The metamorphosis of the subject is achieved directly during the capture without the need for computerized retouching or effects.

Within my works, I developed several themes: Pictorial, Kinetic, Optic, Urban Traces, Pure Nature and LikeAPainting.