{"id":41,"date":"2025-11-04T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:01:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Philip Vliegen, and I\u2019m a street photographer. Living in a small town in the North-East of Belgium, just a few minutes from the border with The Netherlands. I&#8217;ve had an interest in taking photo&#8217;s ever since I was a child. I remember holding my father&#8217;s old Canon film-camera, he wouldn&#8217;t let me waste film, but pulling the lever and clicking away whenever I had the chance. At a later age, in my early 20&#8217;s, every time I went on a travel, I would buy a new digital, point-and-shoot camera. I never really considered it to be a true hobby until 2024. Early in that year we went on a 4 day city trip to Valencia. Ofcourse phone camera&#8217;s had become so good, that I did not need to buy another point-and-shoot. Using my iPhone, inspired by the light and architecture in this city, it sparked an interest. Shortly after I bought my first mirrorless camera and have been hooked ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"17\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-683x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:275px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fotographil.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/537440418_1643484062986517_2455828166494615297_n.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picture by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dartevision\">Manuel Duarte<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Philip Vliegen, and I\u2019m a street photographer. Living in a small town in the North-East of Belgium, just a few minutes from the border with The Netherlands. I&#8217;ve had an interest in taking photo&#8217;s ever since I was a child. I remember holding my father&#8217;s old Canon film-camera, he wouldn&#8217;t let me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fotographil.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}