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Armand Gelkopf

Armand Gelkopf

Deconstruction of Time

Awards

Photographer of the Year Contest

2025

Nominee

Conceptual

Non Professional

Deconstruction of Time

About Artist

Armand Gelkopf

Armand Gelkopf is a photographer whose work probes the fragile boundary between surface and depth, gesture and decay. His images often center on walls, textures, and urban fragments — cracked plaster, peeling paint, and ephemeral markings — revealing the silent histories embedded in everyday materials. These visual traces become metaphors for resilience, rupture, and transformation. Rather than documenting reality, Gelkopf constructs a poetic archaeology of presence: each photograph is a site of tension, where beauty emerges from erosion and meaning from absence. The interplay of light and material — especially the way paint bleeds, flakes, or resists — is central to his practice, inviting viewers to read surfaces as emotional and philosophical landscapes. Gelkopf’s series often unfold as visual essays, exploring themes of displacement, memory, and the politics of visibility. His approach is both tactile and contemplative, drawing attention to what is overlooked, worn down, or in the process of becoming.

Armand Gelkopf

Photographic Areas of Focus

Abstract, Still Life

Location

Belgium

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