"The biography", as usual riddled with commonplaces.   Description of a photographer in a brief?!  How about this?:   Bernard Onderdonck, born in Belgium 1977, studied photography at the Institute forHigher Education of the Visual Arts Saint Lucas Brussels. As from 2005 he’s active as a freelance photographer.   Describing him without using platitudes is hard, if not impossible. So here’s for a few commonplace facts, because they are usually true and apply him as well: -He photographes humanitarian subjects from a social standpoint. -He doesn’t picture “the news” as such, but everything relating to it taking place in the margin. -His object is to show that what isn’t reported by the media. -And so on!   Labelling him as a press-photographer or photo-journalist wouldn’t be correct, non as a documentary photographer. He’s a social oriented reportage-photographer who tells his story from a personal point of view, guided by emotions, judgements and/or prejudices. So don’t expect to see the whole thruth, most of the time he doesn’t know that himself. He photographs “his” storie in “his” image-language.   His image-language is captured in a serie of images. Comprising the story into one image seems impossible for him. That’s why he wants to attribute space to his story by using the photo-story as a tool. Therefore he’s mostly engaged in long term project in order to construct his stories in a proper manner.  A recurring theme in his stories is religiën, this being the main subject in many of his stories whereas in others it may be an underlying motivation.   More often than not, pictures speak louder than words. Therefore, this biography can be considered as a sketch, as an attempt at clearly establishing the position of this photographer in a world made up of pictures. So, let the picture tell the “real” and “full” story!
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