Matthias Desard
Photographer, medium format
I photograph people and the days that matter to them — newborns, communions, family parties — and the practices and plates that businesses need shot properly. Medium format, from Wolfsdonk in Belgium.
At a glance
- Shoots with
- Medium format digital
- Sessions run
- 2 hours to a full day
- Session rate
- € 100 — 500 incl. VAT
- Every usable frame
- Edited, not just sorted
- Fully retouched
- 10 or 50 frames by package
- Prints
- Yes, on request
- Based in
- Wolfsdonk, Belgium travels for the shoot
- Taking bookings
- Yes
Recent frames.
All 30 photographs
Three kinds of day.
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People, and the days that matter
Newborns, communions, family parties, the afternoon everyone is together for once. I stay out of the way and shoot what is actually happening, rather than arranging people into rows and calling it a memory.
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Places and light
The personal work: forests, weather, an Atomium from underneath, a church you can see through. It is where the eye gets trained, and it is why the commissioned frames come back looking like something rather than like a record that an event took place.
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Businesses
Practices, interiors, teams and plates. A dental practice needs to look like somewhere you would sit down; a two-star dessert needs to survive being photographed. Both are lighting problems before they are camera problems.
Rates
Two packages, no surprises.
Where a session lands inside the band depends on travel and how long the day runs. You get the number before anything is booked, not after.
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Basic
A short session — a newborn, a portrait, a family afternoon.
Session rate
€ 100 — 200 incl. VAT
What is included
- Two-hour session
- Every usable frame edited, not just sorted
- Ten frames fully retouched
- Prints on request
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Pro
A half or full day — a wedding party, an event, a business shoot.
Session rate
€ 200 — 500 incl. VAT
What is included
- Four hours up to a full day
- Every usable frame edited, not just sorted
- Fifty frames fully retouched
- Prints on request
Something that fits neither — a wedding running past midnight, a series over several days, prints framed and delivered? Ask. It is a conversation, not a form with no answer at the end of it.
What you are actually buying.
- One person, start to finish
- You talk to the person holding the camera. The same person answers the first message, shows up on the day, edits the files and hands them over. Nothing is passed to a second shooter you have never met.
- Every usable frame is edited
- Not a folder of raw exports with the good ones somewhere inside it. Everything worth keeping is corrected and colour-matched, and ten or fifty of them — depending on the package — are worked properly.
- Detail is the whole point
- Medium format is a deliberate choice and it is the reason the files hold up. You can crop into one of these hard, print it large, and the eyelashes are still there. That is what the extra sensor is for.
- Prints if you want them
- Files are the default, because that is what people actually use. But a photograph on a wall is a different object from a photograph on a phone, and prints can be arranged on request.
Something coming up worth photographing?
Tell me what it is and roughly when. I answer every enquiry within two days, and I will say so plainly if I am not the right fit for it.