YSEULT D.
Nomad photographer
"Simplicity is the source of beauty"
The sentence alone sums up the universe of Yseult D.
Solitary traveller, Yseult D. aspires to highlight moments that may seem insignificant but that are always imbued with a beautiful light. She carefully composes her photographs.
Thrifty, she only takes one shot and never look at her photographs until she comes back from her journey few weeks later.
She is very loyal to her camera, and only changes it every 10 years or more! Her favourite lens is the 50mm, which is almost always with her.
She calls herself a ‘slow photographer’.
She tries to touch and hopes to bring a little poetry into this disturbed world.
“There is no such thing as chance, there are only rendez-vous.” This sentence by Paul Éluard perfectly sums up Yseult D.’s career.
Nothing seemed to predestine her to a career in photography. Daughter of the Depelseneer couple, pioneers of the baby swimming method, Yseult worked for many years alongside her parents in this deeply human and fascinating field.
In 2011, driven by her long-standing passion for photography and cinema, she began evening classes in digital photography with Pierre Scheys, where she learned the technical foundations of the medium. At the same time, she worked in Paris with her painter friend Marc Aghemio, who encouraged her to develop and refine her artistic eye.
A year later, diploma in hand, Yseult travelled to Israel.
What began as a celebratory trip would become a decisive turning point in her professional life. Back in Belgium, a chance encounter at her hairdresser’s led to an opportunity to share the photographs she had taken during her stay. The Jewish Community Centre in Brussels gave her carte blanche to create her first exhibition, Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem, presented under the name Yseult D.
The enthusiastic response from the public encouraged her to devote herself fully to artistic photography.
Today, Yseult D. is a Belgian visual artist and photographer based in Luxembourg. Her practice explores light, simplicity and poetry in everyday life. Working mainly with photography, but also with video and textile installations, she pays particular attention to the materiality of the image and to the relationship between image, space and the viewer.
Her approach is slow and contemplative. As a nomadic photographer, she observes before photographing, often taking only a single image of a moment. Her photographs seek to capture what is quiet, fleeting and sometimes almost imperceptible.
Her work has been presented in Belgium and internationally, including Venice and Milan, and has been selected for exhibitions and artistic projects such as the Arte Laguna Prize and Milan Design Week.