Jeanne
Devos Museum,
Wormhout Pioneer woman
photographer Unique
archive Life in the Flemish
countryside These now form a record of a lost way of
life in the rural communities of Flanders - archived and on
display in this little museum dedicated to her collection.
Jeanne Devos' professional camera equipment
In the years after the Liberation of the
North in 1944 (see Second
World War), Jeanne Devos
(1902-1989) one of the first women professional
photographers, decided to make a record of the everyday
lives of the ordinary people around her in the Flemish
countryside.
Her life's work resulted in a unique record
of a way of life that, even then, was obviously fast
disappearing.
She travelled round the Flemish countryside, amassing over
100,000 photos of family moments, rural festivals, fairs and
weddings.
Her simple cottage, now home to the Museum and to a unique
archive recording a lost way of life.
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