Ben Goossens (Belgian, 1945)

Ben Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, he has turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive surrealist style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte.

Goossens' images have received awards🎨 in a number of prestigious international photography competitions including gold and silver medals at the Trierenberg Super Circuit, the world's largest annual photography salon.

Goossens has also seen his work widely published, including an in-depth 10 page exposition in the March 2007 edition of Photo Art International. His composite photos are remarkable for their seamless yet painterly renderings of surrealist dreamscapes.

"I live in Willebroek, Belgium. After Art School, where photography was one of the sections, I worked 35 years as an Art Director in advertising and allready 15 years with Photoshop, to realize the ideas. Now my hobby and passion is creating experimental/surealistic photomontages.

I sent those images to International Experimentaal Photocontests with success.

With differents shootings I try to ceated my own personal image. What I make now, is a logic follow-up from what I did professionaly.

Maybe those images are not accepted by everybody, but the last years they are eddited all over the world in magazines and books".