Observations from the margin

Clement Van Vyve, Delphine Cool, Elisabeth Van Vyve

Elisabeth Van Vyve (b.1957) has been documenting her social and physical environment with disposable cameras, Polaroids and various point-and-shoot 35 mm cameras for over thirty years. The obsessive nature of her photographic activity has resulted in an enormous collection of printed images, neatly kept in small photo albums and stored on every available shelf of her apartment and care home.0 0As a child, Elisabeth was diagnosed with various developmental disorders, including autism. Hearing difficulties affected her speech and made verbal interaction difficult. Communicating through means of drawings and basic text compositions soon became her preferred way of connecting with her environment. She also began taking photographs, apparently purely to satisfy her own curiosity and for her own enjoyment. 0 0For many years, Elisabeth Van Vyve has been pointing her various cameras at the...