Stephan Vanfleteren has been photographing decrepit façades and forgotten vitrines throughout Belgium for the past decade. This has become a melancholy portrait of vanishing small shops, closed village pubs, abandoned brothels and boarded-up façades.

The 666 numbered books, bound in lead with embossed title and edition number, are part of an artistic installation that will be exhibited in the Budafabriek in Kortrijk from 9 March.

photography: Stephan Vanfleteren
Text: Jan Hertoghs en Stephan Vanfleteren
Translation: Alain van Crugten Corrector: Françoise Osteaux, Marc Vingerhoedt
Editor: Hadewych Van den Bossche
Design: Tim Bisschop (www.houtkaaizeven.be)
Press: die Keure, Brugge
Binding: Van Mierlo, Nijmegen, Nederland

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