Into the Wild

Thomas Jean is a Belgian photographer and videographer with a passion for nature. In 2017, he founded La Minute Sauvage, a project that informs and educates the public about the importance of preserving biodiversity in the city, in order to make our cities more resilient and maintain a viable urban environment. Through his work, he puts our perceptions of the city, wildlife, and our relationship to the Living World into perspective.

Tom is the founder of Restless Brussels, a community that brings international people in Brussels closer together. The community learns about the issues the city faces and the forces transforming it by meeting the people working on them - in politics, activism, academia, business, and more. In his day job, Tom is director of a communications agency serving clients such as EU institutions and the OECD, as well as various NGOs and associations.

At the intersection of multiple disciplines and identities, Habibitch is a non-binary dancer and activist of Algerian origin, based in Paris, who is building an artistic practice as awakened as they are. Using spaces ranging from the Ballroom scene to feminist and institutional platforms to express their North African, queer, and decolonial identity, their performances and words are always intersectional, decolonizing the dance floor wherever they go.

Sally is a multi-faceted content creator: committed, host of her podcast “Chez Sally” on Spotify, director of her own series Motherland and passionate about fashion. With a unique talent for storytelling, she navigates between these different roles to offer her community content that is both captivating and meaningful.

Jamie Clifton is a writer and producer who, as editor-in-chief of VICE, has spent over a decade documenting youth culture in all its forms. For the past four years, he has written and hosted "War On Drugs", a documentary series that explores the many ways in which consumers, marginalized communities, and society as a whole have been harmed by drug laws and enforcement policies.

Fred Jordan is an inventor, entrepreneur and scientist. He holds a PhD in signal processing from EPFL in Switzerland. He is also co-author of 19 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 patents. His first company, AlpVision, is active in digital authentication technologies and has been profitable since 2003. In 2014, Fred Jordan co-founded FinalSpark with Dr Martin Kutter, dedicated to build the first computer based on living neurons.

Hanane Baghdali, a self-taught Belgian-Moroccan artist, draws her inspiration from her travels, personal experiences, and cultural roots. Through painting and digital art, she merges traditional and contemporary techniques, creating vibrant and expressive works. Each piece aims to evoke deep emotions and establish an authentic connection with the viewer.

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Leïla is a journalist and director of the podcast "Toutes entières, au-delà du tabou de l'excision" [All whole, beyond the taboo of excision]. She is also a project manager, communications consultant, storyteller, poet, and facilitator of therapeutic writing workshops. Passionate about narrative journalism, she has been writing news stories accompanied by photographs on her website for 10 years and is particularly interested in stories of migration, multiple identities, mental health, and access to culture. A polyglot globetrotter, she defines herself as the sum of several stories, different worlds, and encounters.

Denis Semionov, aka Saint Denis, is a visionary new media artist based in France. He pushes the boundaries of human imagination by blending virtual art and artificial intelligence. Winner of prestigious awards, including the Webby People’s Voice Award, his captivating works have been presented at events such as South by Southwest and the Cannes Film Festival. He translates participants' emotions about public data collection into art, to be discovered at Into the Wild in November!

Ralfagram is a young Belgian artist from La Hulpe who, since 2018, has dedicated his energy to a photographic project aimed at cultivating individuality. Through words and aesthetic imagery, he helps hundreds of people rebalance their self-esteem. Each week, he shares photos of people considered by society to be different. The objective is simply to give as many people as possible the opportunity to better understand themselves and feel less alone in the face of life's doubts and difficulties.