{"id":4480,"date":"2025-11-02T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:37:17","slug":"update-from-charleroi-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/update-from-charleroi-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"A Photographic Update from Charleroi, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first visited Charleroi, Belgium in 2016 as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/hautsdefrance\">my residency at the CRP\/ Centre r\u00e9gional de la photographie Hauts-De-France<\/a>, when I was photographing the future of France&#8217;s former coal producing region. Since 2020, I have been continuing that work across the international border through a long-term residency at BPS22 Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;art de la Province de Hainaut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a selection of photographs from my visit in October 2025. A few additional images can be seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/selections\"><em>Selections of Recent Work<\/em> gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a man sitting on a spoil tip overlooking the industrial Sambre River valley at sunset.\" class=\"wp-image-4498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460185_bd2940d722_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A row house at dusk.\" class=\"wp-image-4502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54865925165_f815c1601b_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of Cafe Diekirch, a plant filled cafe, as seen from the street at night.\" class=\"wp-image-4497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853156051_419881689a_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A coal car used as a flower planter.\" class=\"wp-image-4515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54863538496_5037b96102_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54852289692_1994efb707_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a man on a street corner at night.\" class=\"wp-image-4496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54852289692_1994efb707_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54852289692_1994efb707_k-300x200.jpg 300w, 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https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460540_ae81a9471d_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460540_ae81a9471d_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460540_ae81a9471d_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54853460540_ae81a9471d_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54861809723_835828066f_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a snack shop, Pic-Nic Frit's, at dusk.\" class=\"wp-image-4501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54861809723_835828066f_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, 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Since 2020, I have been continuing that work across the international border through a long-term residency at BPS22 Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;art de la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[403,494,493,505,223,495],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photograph","tag-belgium","tag-bps22","tag-charleroi","tag-post-industrial","tag-redevelopment","tag-residency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54861809723_835828066f_k.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-1ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}