QEP - Qualified European Photographer

​After a career as a professional photographer, I turned my passion back into my hobby.

After studying photography & film at the Hoger Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels, I worked for more than 40 years as a photographer in Houthalen-Helchteren, Belgium, specialising in portrait and reportage photography.

The passion for photography has remained and is now mainly expressed during my international travels and trips with my motorhome.

I am also closely involved in the work of the FEP, the Federation of European Professional Photographers, where I am chairman of the EP qualification jury. EP - European Photographer is a basic quality label with which the FEP endorses and recognises the minimum required professional competence of its members.
https://www.europeanphotographers.eu/qualifications/ep-european-photographer 

Since edition 2019 I am the chairman of the FEP Awards, an annual competition for professional photographers from all over Europe.
https://www.europeanphotographers.eu/competition 

At the international photo festival ‘Lens op de Mens’ in Pelt, Belgium, I am a board member and chairman of the competition jury. ‘Man’, in the widest sense, is the theme of this largest open air photo festival of the country.
www.fotofestivalpelt.be 

Personal website: www.johan-brouwers.be