Framed: Thomas Ost

“When I moved to Brussels, a very common reaction from people back home was that it was such a grey city. For this series, I transposed the word ‘grey’ into its figurative meaning: neither black nor white. Being grey or in-between is one of the qualities of Brussels. It is a very eclectic city where there seems to be no order to things: residential and industrial areas, the old and the new, leisure and work...everything mixes, scenes overlap, and cultures merge. I’m fascinated with how we tend to normalize our environment, so I searched for some of these grey areas that are so present in the landscape.”

In the Framed series, a different Brussels-based photographer captures the city in four photographs every month. In black and white or with a theatrical glow, from on top of a tower or with a tripod firmly on the cobblestones, with a melancholy gaze or with their eyes wide open to the city’s surreal nature.