Max Pinckers (En)

Max Pinckers (Brussels, 1988) grew up in Indonesia,
India, Australia and Singapore. In 2007 he returned to
his native country Belgium to study photography at
the School of Arts/KASK in Ghent, where he attained
a BA, MA and PhD in the arts in 2021. His work
explores the critical, technological, and ideological
structures that surround the production and
consumption of documentary images. For Pinckers,
documentary involves more than the representation
of an external reality: it’s a speculative process that
approaches reality and truth as plural, malleable
notions open to articulation in different ways. His
installations and books are exhibited internationally,
having received the Edward Steichen Award
Luxembourg and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award,
amongst others. Pickers is co-founder of the
independent publishing house Lyre Press and The
School of Speculative Documentary. He is
represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp
and Tristan Lund in London.