Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, created ‘Anthropocene’: a series of dramatic images exposing how we as humans have left a drastic signature on planet Earth. The exhibition - a first in Belgium - displays powerful images taking up a whole room at times, and large multimedia installations. By combining exceptional camera angles, augmented reality and video, visitors are being held a window to places they are connected to, but never saw this way.

‘Europeans’, from legendary photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, Henri Cartier-Bresson, offers visitors the chance to discover one of the most important post-war series of photography. For five years, Cartier-Bresson traveled across Europe to capture a continent that was devastated by hunger, violence and war, while trying to slowly rebuild itself from its ashes.

In ‘Iconobelge II’, festival director and curator Kaat Celis unites fashion and photography as two major art disciplines. The group exhibition combines the work of fixed values in fashion photography and up-and-coming young talent, and generates a unique dialogue between photographers.

Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen complete the program with their series ‘Land of Ibeji’, in which they take us to Nigeria, a country that yields an exceptionally large number of twins. Discover how the Nigerians’ attitudes shift over time and regions.