Simon Roberts
° 1965
Lives in Antwerp (BE).
Bert Danckaert studied photography at the Academy for Fine Arts and the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts (NHISK) in Antwerp (B). Since the mid-nineties, he has been working as a photographer and has showed his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. Besides his artistic activities, Danckaert also writes about photography for several newspapers and magazines (mainly <H>ART) and has worked as freelance curator. He is associate professor of photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (B). Bert Danckaert is POC (Piece of Cake) member, a European collective of photographers.
In 1999, Danckaert started the series 'Make Sense!' which was published as a book in 2006. In 2007 he started working on a series entitled 'Simple Present' of which the book 'Simple Present - Beijing' appeared in 2008, 'Cape Town Notes' in 2009 and finally the complete series 'Simple Present' in 2013.
>Bert Danckaert, De extra's, 2013.Book, ink, paper, 20 x 12,5 cm, 117 p., language : Dutch, publisher : EPO, Berchem, ISBN : 978 94 91297 54 0.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.