Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt (1947-2015) was a Belgian photographer. He co-founded Agence VU’ with Christian Caujolle in 1986. He is represented by the Gallery Camera Obscura in Paris. Belonging to the tradition of reportage and the “decisive moment”, his works have been widely published. His personal works include Belgian competitions and Immigrants in his country.

Some of his photographs speak of loneliness and suffering, while others are filled with humor. In 1996, he participated in the realization of a vast portrait of Tokyo commissioned by the committee responsible for a cultural exchange program between Japan and the European Community. The resulting Tokyo Today exhibition was shown in Tokyo, Copenhagen, Luxembourg, Salonika and Berlin. In the summer of 1999, the daily newspaper Libération commissioned him to do a “carte blanche” in Sicily and Martinique.

His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions – notably at the Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, and the Rencontres Internationales d’Arles, among others – as well as the publication of ten books, including an issue of the Photo Poche collection (Acte Sud, 2007) and a retrospective monograph co-edited by Le Bec en l’air and the Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi (2022).