Not every answer is a solution to a problem.
Belgian Solutions gathers over 300 images of witty, absurd and at times hilarious hands-on solutions for our everyday environment. The project started in 2006 as an ongoing series of photos by Brussels-based artist David Helbich. Since Helbich posted his pictures on social network platforms in 2009, the project went viral, growing rapidly with contributions posted by Belgian solutions-spotters from around the globe.
This book is the third, updated and improved edition of the original, best-selling publication.
The artist David Helbich (1973) was born in Berlin. He studied composition and philosophy in Freiburg and Amsterdam and has been living in Brussels since 2002. He is a sound, installation and performance artist and has already created various experimental conceptual works for the stage, paper and online media and pubic space.
302 photos of weird everyday scenes showing that not every solution is an answer to a problem
When German artist David Helbich moved to Brussels, he was amazed by the peculiar and sometimes hilarious no-nonsense solutions he started spotting in his daily surroundings. Most of the time they weren t even the answer to a problem think of illogically painted bicycle lanes, a jungle of contradicting traffic signs, wrongly placed house numbers, traffic deviation signs that lead nowhere In 2006 he started photographing these crazy situations and called them Belgian Solutions. He began sharing his photos on Facebook in 2008 (the Belgian Solutions page now has over 34,000 fans) and soon Belgian Solutions spotters all over the world started contributing photos.
And because Helbich continues to make and receive the most original and funny photos of Belgian Solutions, he has more than enough material for a second volume of his best selling book Belgian Solutions Volume 1.
