European national, born in Belgium, Tom has lived, traveled, studied and worked in Europe, Asia, the Americas, Middle East and Africa. He and his wife Drieke are currently living in the USA.

Keen on further engaging in multicultural exchanges, he is always eager to move on to the next international experience: a documentary photography project of the caravanserais in Middle East and Central Asia. Documentary photographer, with a keen interest in architecture and history, he got intrigued by these caravanserais and is fascinated in linking them up with current international affairs in the Middle East, the West and the East. His first series of photos from Northern Iran, has resulted in an art collaboration with Gilles Neuray, a series of exhibitions at galleries in Portland, USA and his first solo exhibition in Paris, France in collaboration with l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) of Paris-Val de Seine.

Traveler, nomad, wandering and restless mind, this is a life’s journey. Recently he returned from another four months road trip thru Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, which resulted in a second visual documentary on the caravanserais. A small selection of photos, on a caravanserai at the Byzantine site of Al Resafa in Syria, is showing in a photography group show in Portland, USA. He is preparing an exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon, which is his first showing of the full photography series of Caravanserais in the Levant. Tom is further preparing exhibitions in the USA and Europe and is working on a book that will combine photography material with text materials and interviews with international affairs experts on the Middle East.

He enjoys operating in an international environment linking up with a variety of experts and professionals. As a consultant he is interested to work with companies and organizations on international projects where cultural differences and misunderstandings require a multicultural approach and thorough international project management expertise.

Looking for aesthetics and values in his professional activities, his passions are traveling, research, photography, writing, architecture and design.

Most fascinating travel and international professional experiences

        Lebanon, Syria, Jordan (2009), Ethiopia (2009), Senegal & Mali (2008),

        China (2007, Beijing, Xian), Egypt (2006, Western Desert), Asia (2003-05, Professional),

        Iran-Central Asia-China (2003, Silk Road, Shanghai), Vietnam & Japan (1997-99, Professional),

        Singapore (1996, Professional), China-Pakistan (1995, Silk Road), Somalia (1992-93, UN

        mission), India-Nepal (1991), Rwanda (1981-82).

Favorite artists

        Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Zaha Hadid,

        Marcel Breuer, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer,

        Sebastião Salgado,

        Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Permeke, Gust De Smet, Luc Tuymans,

        Hussein Chalayan,

        Shirin Neshat,

To contact Tom, consider an email and send to mail@consideratcaravanserai.net

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