Hans Van Hoof Photographer based in Belgium.

email@vanhoofhans@icloud.com

In 2005, I bought my first reflex camera. After having experimented some time with it, I took several online and face-to-face courses and workshops on photography. I also learned how to use Lightroom for post-processing.

As I am passionate about traveling, there were plenty of opportunities to put into practice what I had learned. Our journeys to Iceland, the United States, Costa Rica, Italy, Kenia, Montenegro, New Zealand and many other destinations, gave me a chance to engage in street, nature and wildlife photography.

I am also a huge fan of metal music. I played in a band and have been attending concerts for more than 30 years. Concert photography was a logical next step, which opened up a new world for me. In 2008, I took my first metal concert pictures in Ghent, Belgium. Soon after that, I starting shooting concert photography for the magazine Rock Tribune, for example at Alcatraz Metal Fest, Graspop Metal Meeting, Metal Méan, Durbuy fest, Lokerse feesten, Metal Female Voice Fest, Dunk Festival ... in Belgium and Eindhoven Metal Meeting, Roadburn, Incubate festival and FortaRock in The Netherlands.

I was awarded the first prize of the Photo Days Contest in Brussels, Belgium.

Some of my pictures were published in "World's best music photoghraphers vol I".