Photographies

Rob Rombout photographing a Barbary macaque sitting on a railing above the bay of Gibraltar — 2024, Gibraltar, Rob Rombout

« Depuis plus de trente ans, le réalisateur néerlandais arpente les routes du monde pour saisir des fragments du réel à travers ses multiples rencontres. […] Rob Rombout est de ces réalisateurs et photographes à la curiosité insatiable qui part sans cesse en quête de l’Autre. Ses films sont des portraits contemporains qui assemblent de rencontres en rencontres les images fragmentaires qui composent un pays. […] Ces traversées façonnent ainsi sa culture de la route aux frontières de l’image fixe et en mouvement. »

Nathalie Dassa, « Rob Rombout, documenteur du monde », Les Plats Pays, 20 janvier 2025.

2020, Armação de Pêra, Portugal

A young woman with a fringe looking into the lens — 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Minh Vu Hong

A Barbary macaque sitting against a pale sky — 2024, Gibraltar

A breaking wave off Pico — 2020, Pico, Portugal

A ridge of folded red rock under a pale sky — 2018, Little Karoo, South Africa

A tangle of bare, lichen-covered branches against a pale sky — 2026, Caldas de Monchique, Portugal

A covered market, the roof casting long stripes of shadow on the ground — 2017, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A painted corner building on a street with snow — 2018, Montreal, Canada

A tiled courtyard seen from under a carved lattice — 2021, Marrakech, Morocco

A smiling woman in a pink checked headscarf — 2014, Sapa, Vietnam

An older man with a shaved head, half his face in shadow, against a black background — 2010, New York, USA, Tony Ndogo

A woman with green eyes and gold earrings, half lit, against a black background — 2011, Amsterdam, Montana, USA, Carly Danhof-Bellach

A man with round glasses and a dark high-collared jacket against a black background — 2013, Shanghai, China, Huang Jianhua

A closed bar front covered in graffiti, the sign reading Bar le Cinéma — 2019, Villeurbanne, France

Weathered fence posts, one painted with the word AMOR — 2023, Quito, Ecuador

A wall covered with handwritten messages and notes — 2018, Verona, Italy

An older man with white curly hair and a dark jacket, against a dark background — 2019, Villeurbanne, France, Robert Cahen

A young man with dark tousled hair looking into the camera, a blurred room behind him — 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, Luca

A young woman with long braids and pearl earrings, against a grey wall — 2018, Cotonou, Benin, Florida Zossoungbo

Trees and karst hills reflected in still water — 2018, Ninh Binh, Vietnam

Silhouettes of four people at the edge of the surf, seen from above — 2026, Nossa Senhora da Rocha, Portugal

Old sailing boats moored in a harbour under a grey sky — 2026, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sunlight on the sea and on wet sand, a small figure in the distance — 2026, Caparica, Portugal