In 2010 photographer Brandon Stanton started taking photographs of the people he met on the streets of New York. He placed the resulting portraits and vignettes, based on the conversations he had, online. His blog, “Humans of New York”, quickly became an internet phenomenon. In the following years, many people recreated the project in other cities - in Belgium, BRUZZ maintained “Humans of Brussels” for a while.
On the occasion of the VUB’s 50th anniversary, prof. dr. Martina Temmerman asked the students in her introductory course on journalism genres to make portraits of people on the VUB campus. The ‘snapshots’ resulting from the project “Humans of the VUB” offer a lovely cross section of life on our university campus in 2019/20. We give a heartfelt thanks to the students for their contribution and kindly invite you to browse through the portraits:
- Receptionist at the Library;
- Alex, student Computer Science and worker at the reception of the sports center;
- Peter Baele, coordinator AV Services;
- Abel Berkvens, student Communication Studies;
- Frederik-Jan Billiet, student employee at the Crazy Copy Center;
- Kay Bogaert, student Social Sciences;
- Thomas Caira, student Linguistics and Literary Studies;
- Alex de Pape, student Master in Adult Educational Sciences;
- Rukiye Cevik, Student Applied Linguistics;
- Alexia Jihae Dahlin, 1st year student Social Sciences;
- Lieselotte Deconinck, master student Adult Educational Sciences;
- Sterre Elen;
- Asefeh Ghadiri Bidhendi, student Master in Literature and Linguistics;
- Bill Ghewy, History student;
- Lise Gijbels, student master Adult Educational Sciences;
- Matteo Kopriva, member of Comac;
- Quentin Lievyns, student representative;
- Arthur Schauwers;
- Jethro Stoffels, student of Physics and Astronomy;
- Stella Stopponi;
- Seppe Terryn, PhD student;
- Hendrik van Bastelaere, senior of Mesacosa;
- Jean-Paul Van Bendegem, emeritus VUB;
- Anne Van Kersen, president of the Letteren- en Wijsbegeerte Kring;
- Bart Van Wijnendaele;
- Karin Verelst, alumna;
- Dries Vergouwen, student;
- Lucas Votot, best lacrosse player of Belgium;
- Zehra Yildiz, student Applied Linguistics;
- Yiming Zhao.