JAPAN GLITCH
Experimental photography & circuit bending - Japan, 2026
During two months travelling through Japan in 2026, I carried one of my modified digital cameras alongside my analog equipment.
Unlike my ongoing series such as Feu Forest, these photographs were not made around a predefined subject. I simply used the camera while travelling, photographing whatever made me stop: landscapes, animals, shrines, objects and fragments encountered along the way.
What interests me in looking back at them is how a photographic language developed elsewhere travelled with me. The same unstable camera I had learned to work with in Belgium suddenly encountered unfamiliar landscapes, colours, symbols and forms.
The glitch does not erase these subjects. A torii, Mount Fuji, a bird or a koi remains immediately recognisable, while the electronic accident shifts the world around it into something more unstable and intensely coloured.
Japan Glitch is therefore less a defined series than a collection of encounters between a familiar tool and an unfamiliar territory, a visual record of what happened when I brought my modified camera with me and allowed it to wander too.
