:: Bea Uhart Photography ::

The Best Cat in the Whole World

Bea — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:56 +0000

a little love for Marley… and that title should help my SEO!

Open Space @ The HUB

Bea — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:24:31 +0000

The HUB Brussels is an amazing, innovative co working space right around the corner from me. I’m often tempted to grab myself a desk there but can’t quite justify it … a lot of my editing is done later at night and I have a perfectly good space at home. It’s always nice to have an excuse to spend some time there though, which is what MediatEUr‘s open space event offered me on Friday. So two posts in one really – some open space action and some HUB vibe. Here’s the full flickr set

Away game

Bea — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:08:13 +0000

Busy, fun weekend. We (rugby team) had an away game in Heusden-Zolder on Saturday - a small place in the middle of the Limbourg region. As we left Brussels, it was pouring with rain and absolutely freezing meaning none of us were feeling very pumped but the closer we got to Heusden the bluer the skies and it ended up being pretty perfect! I bought my camera along to snap a couple of team shots and then it struck me that it would be fun to shoot all the changing rooms and club houses of the places we play at… they are all fairly unique. I’ve missed half of them this season, so I suppose that means I’m condemned to playing at least another year if I want to catch all of them!
Band shoot with Ziggy today but I haven’t even loaded those yet so that’ll have to wait.

Daytripping in Charleroi

Bea — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:14:18 +0000

Most people know of Charleroi as the Brussels “Ryanair airport” (ie – an expensive 45min Ryanair-owned coach ride into town) … in fact, Charleroi is the largest Walloon and third largest Belgian city (just over 200,000 inhabitants) but struggles economically (27% of the population earn less than €10 000 a year compared to 17% nationally). The infrastructure desperately needs updating, and the mix of empty rundown buildings and flashy neon lights is pretty grim. It was once a busy mining town which goes some way to explaining all of the above and which also accounts for the hordes of second and third generation Italian families that pepper this area of the country. I headed there last Sunday with Emilie & Ari for a little shooting session… a few more on this flickr set

House guest

Bea — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:17:37 +0000

Henri in town this weekend – his fee for surfing the couch was to pose a little.

That building opposite Midi

Bea — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:16:22 +0000

I’m guessing everybody in Brussels (or who has ever visited) knows this building – it’s bang opposite the entrance/exit to the Gare du Midi, right by the taxi stand/spot-where-you-smoke-your-last-cigarette-before-boarding (well, not me, not for the past 5 months anyway ) … I’m not sure everybody thinks it’s as cool as I do though, so here’s my attempt to convince.

Flagey Church

Bea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:49:57 +0000

Cold evening on Place Flagey. The lights in the church looked welcoming but I’m really not trying to make any big statement here!

Mr SMART

Bea — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:44:53 +0000

Julek Jurowicz is a bit of a celebrity in my circle. He co-founded SMART – a non profit organisation which handles contracts for artists and other people working on short contracts. Thanks to SMART people like me don’t have to pay through the nose or suffocate under a pile of paperwork in order to work independently. They also publish helpful guides, provide trainings and fight for the rights of those on short term contracts. It’s not perfect – there is still a fair amount of paperwork and my salary is not always paid quite on time…but all in all, it’s a great idea/help that is being rolled out in France and will no doubt spread further. Julek is ridiculously busy and has been doing this for 20 years but still lights up when discussing the latest fight with the national employment agency involving artists’ right to subsidies. Sam the dog is the office mascot.

2012 it is

Bea — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:15:43 +0000

Happy new year! I hope it’s a good one (and that the Mayas had it wrong). Back in comfy Brussels after a really nice xmas – I may have to stop wine and food in 2012 though!
A selection of shots from the Lot et Garonne and Dordogne – everyone should visit (and when they do, stay at my parents B&B!). I also managed to catch up with François & Aurélie who were xmassing nearby… we picked a half way spot on the map and ended up in La Roche Chalais where the one restaurant will stuff you to the gills for 12 euros – what more could you ask for?

Seasons Greetings

Bea — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:39:20 +0000

I’m cruising down to the South West of France tomorrow to do the whole Christmas, family, overeating, under exercising, constant state of mild drunkenness thing… should be nice. I’ll also be meeting my newest nephew for the first time (the one who waited for me to leave Madrid to be born, so I’m not sure he’s quite as keen on meeting me come to think about it…).
I won’t be blogging while I’m down there but I will be shooting so I’ll have a bunch of material for when I get back. I’m also going to post ’11 from 2011′ to kick off next year – I’m quite looking forward to selecting the best moments. It’s been a pretty good year.
In the meantime the weather has been pretty mild in Brussels but we did have one evening of proper snow… so that’s my xmas card of sorts.