Harry Gruyaert on Belgium

Harry Gruyaert talks in Dutch about Belgium and his hunger for images. The conversation is a live episode of the De Donkere Kamer podcast, recorded during the show at Arenberg in Antwerp. The video is on the De Donkere Kamer channel and runs about 15 minutes.

The conversation covers his book Homeland, in which the Magnum photographer brings together decades of street photography in Belgium. Gruyaert talks about leaving Belgium and his difficult relationship with his roots. His switch from black and white to color also comes up.

Gruyaert also talks about his drive to keep taking photographs. Even on the train ride to this interview, he was making new work. That hunger for images also appears in the original video title: “Straatrat en meester van kleur: Harry Gruyaert over België en zijn eeuwige honger naar beeld.”