YVES ULLENS
Summary
After a career in telecommunications I decided to dedicate myself to what has been a passion since childhood: photography. I took my first images at the age of eight and at fourteen I learned the basics of laboratory work in the darkroom of my grandmother, a filmmaker and photographer herself. Read more...
BIL Luxemburg, Fascinating Lights, Caroline Bouchard, 2012
L’Indépendance Gallery, which is run by Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), is hosting an exhibition entitled Fascinating Lights which provides an opportunity to discover a set of recent and older works by the Belgian artist Yves Ullens. His photographic work, which is mostly abstract, is marked by a relentless study of colour and light, Read more...
Big Book Brussels, Frédéric Jarry, 2012
Le photographe belge Yves Ullens est une référence internationale en matière de travail sur la lumière. Cet attachant et généreux quinqua suractif a vécu dans son enfance une Near Death Experience qui lui donne envie aujourd'hui de traquer la lumière et de la révéler aux autres. Read more...
Foyer Luxemburg, Christine de Nayer, 2007
Après une première carrière dans les télécommunications, Yves Ullens décide de se consacrer à une passion qui l’habite depuis l’enfance : la photographie. C’est un flou accidentel, une photographie prise depuis un véhicule en mouvement, lors d’un voyage en Turquie, Read more...
Ethnic Design Miami, Bernard Drion, 2003.
Yves Ullens de Schooten’s photographic approach is aimed at tracking down forms of light. These lights radiate from day to day objects and experience. By instinct, the artist captures them and restores their energy and colors, Read more...
The abstract pictures of Yves Ullens de Schooten, The Birth Of TL, Geneviève Bergé, 2001.
A favorable environnement :
Born in a family of photographers (his grand-mother was " Fellow" of the Royal Geographic Society) and art collectors (his father likes particularly Vasarely's paintings and Pol Bury's metallic sculptures), Read more...
All images, © Yves Ullens - Traqueur de Lumières