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Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria
Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria

Ria Verhaeghe

Provisoria

€40,00
16,2 × 21,7 cm, 496 p, ills. b&w, paperback
ISBN 9789083519913
edit & design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
texts: Giorgia Basch, Barbara De Coninck
Zoë Gray, Philippe Van Cauteren
edition of 1500
September 2025

Provisoria is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The images—often dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettling—explore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and dramatic to the ambiguous, grotesque, and unexpectedly tender. Three sections—Human Interest, Fusion and Mindwaves—offer insight into the archive’s conceptual range.

Fusion explores how we interpret images, grouping photographs by visual or symbolic qualities: featuring categories like shadows (simulacre), icons (icon), double images (glende), traces (trace), as well as those that are surreal (alien), aesthetically compelling (beauty), or energetically charged (move or MUD, for “multi-use dimension”). Mindwaves, by contrast, is structured around formal visual qualities: packaging (emballage), texture (such as Fourche, Circle, Amorf, or Geometric), and connection (connection, including subcategories like Human, Realea, and Strip). The Human Interest section (Icarus, Verticals , WWEB and Trümmerfrauen) contains images and notes focused on human emotion, empathy, and compassion.

This book presents a curated selection of over 3,500 images—a glimpse into a vast and richly layered archive that reimagines how we see, sort, and understand the photographic world.



The project is supported by Be-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art in Waregem and Kortrijk.

Ria Verhaeghe (Belgium, 1950) is a Belgian artist. Her work focuses on collecting and archiving anonymous newspaper photographs. Through various techniques, she assigns different and new meanings to these press photos.