STORY
Wesley Dombrecht(1979) is a Belgium-based commercial and artistic food & still-life photographer, his love for photography and art began at young age beside his passion for food. Over the years ,his work evolved from commercial and editorial food photography to still-life / fine-art photography.
His fine-art work is Internationally acclaimed and awarded and has also been included in several group exhibitions like in Italy, Berlin, London, Denmark, Tokio, the Netherlands & Belgium…Over the years his works is being exhibited at several galleries like in Italy ( InArte Gallery ) & the Netherlands at ‘Grachten gallery’ and TON gallery.
ARTWORK
In his artwork Wesley primarily works around food in series, of images connecting with each other through a theme , some famous series he has made include ‘Sprouting & Rotting’, ‘Germinate’ , ‘ Marine-species’ , ‘Seeds’ , Reminisce’ , ‘Luxury foods’, ‘Fish&smoke’, etc…
In these works he explores the beauty of everyday products, playing with his subjects, bringing them to life or freezing them in time and space, trying to achieve an image that brings originality .
EXHIBITIONS
LONDON // PINK LADY AWARDS //
BERLIN // INARTE GALERY //
ITALY // NOWART EXHIBITION //
DENMARK // FOODPHOTO EXHIBITION 2019 // NETHERLANDS // GALERY TON //
☞Galerie TON
Raadhuisstraat 27
4715 CB Rucphen (near Breda)
Netherland
☞Grachten Galerie
Oudegracht 185
3511 NE Utrecht
Netherland
Accomplishments
Industry Awards and Recognitions
In the year 2017 he was awarded with a 1st place award in The London ‘Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year 2017’ category ‘‘Cream Of The Crop’’ with his picture `Smoked Mackerel & also in the ‘Tokyo International Foto Awards’ with a 1st place GOLD Award in the category ”Fine-Art” for his serie ‘Sprouting & rotting’….since then his personal work is been awarded in various International photo contest worldwide…
