The project started in May 2009 on Facebook with a photo album titled “Belgian solutions” on my personal profile. Some pictures are older, going back till 2006 at least, but this album is the start of the series as such and the moment I introduced the title for the first time.

Social media played a major role in the development of the work and the interaction with its audience, giving everybody the opportunity to participate with own picture, comments, stories and shares.

Over the years, my engagement with social media changed as much as social media providers also changed their policies. I kept all outputs, only stopped twitter (which never really happened for me).

The exact timeline of all the changes is a bit boring, but is a good example of how these places always been a battle between collective creativity and (aimed) commercial control.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/belgiansolutions/

where I post own photos as posts and share photos with the tag @belgiansolutions in stories. It’s the most active of all outputs.

Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/208156957387/

where I share photos that where uploaded in the group (Slowly. Sorry for being way behind all the time)

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Belgiansolutions/

where no much is happening since Facebook keeps it down, trying to blackmail me into boosting (=paying for) my own posts. Shame, since it was big and very active at one point.