Didier Engels. Work "Limelight lab" realized exclusively in favor of the operation "One tent one life". Signed. 235 x 77 cm After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (25 years as a textile stylist and 5 years as an interior designer), Didier Engels turned to photography. As a self-taught Belgian photographer, he started his photographic work "Dry Dock" and "Kaaien" in January 2015. After a successful first exhibition, Didier will dedicate his time to capture the colors and freeze the moment in this unique world of docks. Since his childhood, Didier Engels likes to stroll on the quays of the ports. At the age of 20, he experienced the life of a docker in the port of Zeebrugge and this port affinity never left him. Inspired by this maritime universe, he creates a series of abstract photographs from which he draws the beauty of the hulls of ships. Photographs with vivid and past colors that reflect the experience of these ships that have been sent back to port or stored in dry dock. Didier Engels then goes back to his first memories as a docker and takes a series of photographs from the quays of the port of Antwerp. He finds in the containers the perfect witness of his obsession for colors, preferably with a patina, and for subjects full of history. Sedimentary textures, faded colors, oxidized marks; it is on this territory that Didier Engels evolves. Didier Engels' photographs are printed on photo paper and then cast in several resin baths to accentuate the colors and depth. The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese technique of paper folding.