We recently stumbled upon the work of final year photography student Adriaan Hauwaert and instantly fell for his .be series, which somehow reminded us of the red brick houses feature we had run in our red album. Impeccably framed and with a consistency that’d have Ed Ruscha running for the exit,  Adriaan’s series is part ‘documentary’ (the houses he photographs are within a 20km radius of where he lives), part ‘fiction’ (the photographs often have a surreal element to them, a Hansel and Gretel sugar-coated superficiality if you will). What’s more, it manages to capture a very Belgian style of architecture that, in our eyes, will never go out of fashion. We caught up with the soon-to-graduate up-and-coming talent to find out what his next move is.

How old are you?

I’m 21.

What are you up to nowadays?

Tell us a little about your .be series? What’s the inspiration behind it? Where are most of the houses you shoot located? Do you know about the people that live inside those houses?

Is it an on-going series?

What does grey say to you? Why is it a colour that speaks to you?

Would you say coming from Mechelen influences your eye, and photographic work?

What are you working on at the moment? What’s your end of college project?

What more do you have in-store for the grey series?

If your photography were music, what genre would it be?

Which photographers would you say helped shape your work?

What’s next? After answering this email and after finishing up your last year at college..

What websites do you check every morning?

A last exhibition you checked out?