Vincen Beeckman / Claude & Lilly

The Claude & Lilly project started in 2015 when Vincen Beeckman was handing out disposable cameras to the homeless at Central Station in Brussels. It was during these encounters that he met Claude and Lilly, two bashful lovers. He is Flemish and hails from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw; she comes from the Marolles district of Brussels. They met 22 years previously at the city’s Foire du Midi event. Vincen Beeckman asked to photograph them, with his camera, promising to given them the photo in exchange (which is how he works). This first photo was the beginning of a story of friendship and the beginning of a project that would last for three years until the death of Lilly, in June 2018.

12,7 x 21,6 cm.
36 pages
2019