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IN BETWEEN >LAND AND SEA<

Dirk roseport



Dirk roseport

IN BETWEEN >LAND AND SEA<

dirk roseport
selections &
awards
solo exhibitions
group exhibitions

°1955 >Selected for the Flanders The Loft gallery(B - 2015) Museum M - Leuven(B - 2017)
Belgium Photography Tour 2017-2019 Flanders Photography Tour Knokke Photography Festival
After a start in the >Selected for the Museum M 19 exhibitions (B - 2017/2019) (B - 2018)
financial world, Roseport soon “There is always more to see” Graze gallery(UK - 2017)) Photography Museum Antwerp
moved on to the advertising exhibition(B - 2017) NF-Art gallery(B - 2018) (B - 2019)
sector, where he was head of >Selected for the Knokke Gallery del Campo(NL - 2018) Hi-Rez gallery Oostkamp
creation in several Belgium Photography festival “Unknown Namur Fine Art Fair(B - 2018) (B - 2018)
based US advertising agencies. Masterpieces”(B - 2018) De Factorij Brussels(B - 2018)
He worked closely with >Selected for the Brussels “My Gallery Van Campen & Rochtus
professional photographers at home is where the heart is” (B - 2020/2021)
home and abroad, got inspired exhibition(B - 2018)
by the work they did and >Honorable mention at the ND July 2020 - Antwerp
learned from them on the sets. Awards(2017) October 2020 - Knokke
>Certificate of achievement at December 2020 - Knokke
[email protected] the Kuopio Photo International December 2020- Antwerp
www.dirkroseport.com competition(2017) January 2021 - Knokke
www.instagram.com/dirkroseport/ >3rd Place Winner at the March 2021 - Antwerp
Umbra International Photography May 2021 - Knokke
Awards(2018) July 2021 - Knokke
>Winner Minimalist Photographer vcrb gallery
of the Year(2019) (B - 2021/...)
>Triple nomination in the 7th September 2021 - Antwerp
Fine Art Photography December 2021- Knokke
Competition in the categories June 2022 - Antwerp
Seascape, Fine Art and Night ​
photography(2021)
>Featured in #18 of the
ALL ABOUT PHOTO MAGAZINE
Best in BW photography 2021
with the Closer To The Gods
project

FINISH
DIMENSIONS
editions

IN BETWEEN >LAND AND SEA<

In between >land and sea<
comes as C-Prints with a
digital white passe-partout,
mounted on dibond behind UV-99
anti-reflective museum glass,
in a black stained wood frame.

Dimensions:
32,6X47,6cm
50X72,5cm
+ subject specific dimensions
Edition of 7.





In this organically growing body of work, "In between >land and sea<" Roseport
abandons the often Rothkosian tableaux of Transcendental Tranquility. The subjects he
now captures had been pushing him in the back for years. He records them in a hard,
sometimes almost graphic - without however seeking abstraction- black and white
photography, in which details play the leading role.

The brutally cut cliffs, gently rolling dunes and swaying grasses fill him with just
as much awe as the immense bodies of water that he photographs in Transcendental
Tranquility. Their immensity, their energy, even the threat that sometimes literally
emanates from them, their creation, in a relentless process, worked on him more and
more deeply, until he turned the camera and let the conversations of the structures
drawn by the elements enter him and let them tell their stories in a closed intimacy.

Those stories of relentless struggle in an uneven battle were captured in what he
calls a temporary reality, for erosion by wind, waves, water and frost constantly
changes what he captures. What is now is soon gone and different. Nature tirelessly
cuts and models her own works of art.

In Roseport's rendering of them, an atmosphere both threatening and liberating
constantly lurks. Greedy use of harsh black tones result in a powerful visual language
in the Birling Gap works. Soft musing sounds emerge when viewing the dune top in
Malo-les-Bains. Dreamy desolation permeates the perception of the wooden structures
placed by human intervention and newly shaped by nature in Cuckmere Haven and the
bunkers on Leffrinckoucke beach. The fact that nature gives even these structures
installed between sea and land new forms and a new purpose as a work of art, urges
Roseport to portray them as well. Even more so than nature, they lose the never-ending

IN BETWEENbattle and thus acquire new meaning.

In between >land and sea< avoids, through its approach, what at first sight might
appear to be documentary photography. Under the skin, those who allow themselves the
time to look see the tranquility, but also the impulse to contemplate. It results in a
slow but sure detachment from reality and the moment and ultimately in a mental
displacement.

What Roseport does with his rendering in In between >land and sea< is to allow the
subjects to dialogue with the viewer. Through the this time deliberately chosen small
dimensions of the works, he invites the viewer, obliges the viewer to come closer to
the image and allow what they see to slowly trickle into them in order to allow the
experience in the mind to take over the body.

The fact that Roseport continues to put the aesthetic approach first, rewarding the
viewer rather than shocking them, is a matter of course for him here too, as in
Transcendental Tranquility, Fading Memories and Closer to the gods.

Whereas in Transcendental Tranquility Roseport silently forces the spectator to choose
whether or not to place the images in his own imagined geography, he now - in line
with the detailed language of the recordings - indicates the exact location of the
recording, so that the spectator himself can go and see transience, his own temporary
reality, on the spot.

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>LAND AND SEA<



Ault (France)

Birling Gap (great britain)

Ault (France)

Birling Gap (great britain)

Birling Gap (great britain)



Birling Gap (great britain)



Malo-les-Bains (France)



leffrinckoucke (france)



freshwater bay (great britain)

Cuckmere haven (great britain)

Cuckmere haven (great britain)

Ault (France)

Peacehaven (great britain)

Alum Bay (Isle of Wight)

Alum Bay (Isle of Wight)



Charmouth (great britain)



Charmouth (great britain)





DIRK ROSEPORT

[email protected]
www.dirkroseport.com

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Photography: Dirk Roseport
Text: Kim Poorters/Dirk Roseport/Sarah J LLoyd
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