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With more than 300 portraits of, among others, Kelly Slater, Gerry Lopez, John John Florence, Laird Hamilton, Bethany Hamilton, Greg Noll, Stephanie Gilmore, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Mickey Munoz, Filipe Toledo and Tom Carroll. 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It's a journey of exploration into a small country in the heart of Europe, at the turn of the centuries.  More than fifteen years Vanfleteren has wandered through and hunted in the 'Belgicum' territories, guided by emotion and by the love for his homeland. He made a journey through a scarred land, in search of the irretrievable identity of a country with the melancholic soul of an old nation.  Over the past ten years, over 11,000 copies were sold of this international bestseller. Belgicum grew out to be a reference work in the Belgian history of photography. On the occasion of the tenth birthday of this cult book, it was reprinted.  With text by David Van Reybrouck.  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To mark Vanfleteren's 50th birthday, he is  celebrating with a major retrospective which will occupy the entire  Antwerp Museum of Photography (FOMU, 25 October 2019 - 1 March 2020) and  with this publication Present, in which he  looks back over his fascinating career. \"I was there, I was present\",  says the photographer, who always feels himself to be both accomplice  and witness.   For Present, Vanfleteren  has taken a generous selection of more than 400 photos from his ample  archive, some of which have become iconic images while others have never  been published before. In extensive texts, he reflects on how his own  work and photography as a genre have evolved over the past decades and  links these developments with a number of major social changes.   This  superbly illustrated book is an impressive overview of Vanfleteren's  work and offers a comprehensive picture of him as a photographer, as an  artist and, above all, as a human being living life with empathy, wonder  and curiosity.   Previous successful publications by Vanfleteren, such as Belgicum, Portret, Atlantic Wall and Façades \u0026amp; Vitrines, have become true collector's items.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50814208344337,"sku":"GOR010888761","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52657077256465,"sku":"NLS9789463887151","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9463887156.jpg?v=1751223301"},{"product_id":"elvis-presley-book-stephan-vanfleteren-9783934923065","title":"Elvis \u0026 Presley","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50978791719185,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50978791981329,"sku":"GOR005252091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3934923062.jpg?v=1751128245"},{"product_id":"transcripts-of-a-sea-book-stephan-vanfleteren-9789493416208","title":"Transcripts of a Sea","description":"Photographer Stephan Vanfleteren presents his sea-inspired photography, exploring maritime paintings evolution and its connection to past artists from the 17th to 20th centuries. 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