Kenny Ros is essentially a landscape photographer, further developed as an artist. He transgresses genre by mixing landscape- and documentary photography with fine art.
His attraction to the landscape, he says, is ‘to approach a unique perspective and a haunting perception, beyond the ordinary representation of reality’. ‘Because of a progressive muscle disease, I can’t enjoy the naïve beauty of traditional vistas. When I find the strength to go on location, I embrace my pain and suffering and use that as a reflection to create an intriguing scenery, roughly based on the captured landscape and strengthened by the better angels of my unconscious mind’.
The work of Kenny Ros is influenced by the question: how do we interact with the environment around us? The works mystify rather than clarify. We encounter a symbiosis on the verge of reality and imagination and therefore, an escape from the real world.
Kenny Ros
Born in 1985, Ghent, Belgium
Resides and works in Nevele, Belgium
(Diagnosed with a progressive muscle disease, Bethlem myopathy, since 2018)
Education
2024: Fine art photography studies & masterclass
2021-2024: Art studies & mentoring
2019-2020: 360° Photographer & editor @ Panobirds BVBA
2018: Landscape photography studies & masterclass
Exhibition history
2024 Biënnale Deinze, cultural center Brielpoort, Deinze, Belgium
2024 Unknown Masterpieces, cultural center Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2023 Expo Barbaix , town hall Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
2023 Perpetual Dance, Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Corinth, Greece
2023 Prijs van de MAKERS, Sint-Anna castle, Maldegem, Belgium
2023 Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece
2022 Fay-Art Kunsthuis, castle Les Fayards, Brugge, Belgium
2022 Pop up solo exhibition Schuifdamhoeve, Veurne, Belgium
2022 Biënnale Deinze, cultural center Brielpoort, Deinze, Belgium
2021 Levende Leie, visitor center Bourgoyen, Ghent, Belgium
2021 IMPACT, Roman Archaeological Museum, Oudenburg, Belgium
Grants
2023 Culture Moves Europe - European Union, Culture department
Residencies & work trips
2023 PH Museum Lab hybrid residency - Crete Senesi, Asciano - Tuscany, Italy
2022 Holocaust Impressions work trip - Holocaust memorial Natzweiler-Struthof - France
Publications
Julien Delagrange, “Features” in Contemporary Art Issue - (2024)
Collaborative Projects
2023 -2024 KUNSTENPUNT - selected artist network sessions Wortelen//Rooting, Brussels, Belgium
Nominations
2023 BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards - Honorable mention Fine Art
2023 FEP awards - Illustration & Fine Art merit award
2022 The Motif Collective - Shortlisted
2022 Aesthetics of Photography - Featured Artists Vol.2
2022 Loosenart - Selected artwork
2022 Siena creative photo awards - Finalist
2021 Monovisions awards - Honorable mention
2021 Natuurpunt Levende Leie - Finalist + 2nd place jury prize
2021 Photo contest Gravity - Finalist
2021 FEP awards - 2x nature merit award, 2x landscape merit award
2021 Photo contest IMPACT - 1st place jury prize + 2nd place public prize
2021 Federation of European Photographers - EP certificate