This is the instagram feed of Alex Verhalle, an international and techno-music photographer based near Brussels. He creates stop-motion animation videos in order to create a unique visual story about a night filled with dark pleasures and to combine photography with his passion for music.
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the attraction to photography for me is the ability to use it as a tool to express what i feel when going through an experience of music. It’s about a profound relationship between what artists create and what my hearth craves.
with this in mind, i love to create during countless of hours, days or months towards what i consider an ‘artwork’.
here is a new work showing what i hear, feel and see when listening to a new track by VILAIN coming on the 15th of January.
supported by images made at the infamous @monasteriomoscow in April 2025.
stepping into my 9th year of documenting (techno) music as a photographer. 2026 will be about trying to continue to inspire people around the world with my work.
after many changes in the scene, i’m beyond proud to see my work keep having its place in today’s modern scene. Not primarly to photograph “for” events anymore but to develop, shape and create my visual language to translate what artists try to create with their music.
exhibiting, masterclasses, fine-art prints.. i’m finally ready for the next steps. Awake but forever dreaming.
proud to notice my work as a photographer continues maintain a place in nightlife documentation. I’m not just photographing (for) events, it became my tool for self-expression in which i pour my soul into. Animating my photography work and combining this with music i non-stop listen, is what continues to deliver me hapiness.
Jenny seen somewhere at @modul8.ch Basel some weeks ago.
track by @kevindevriesmusic
re-imagined AV show in Moscow 🖼️
for years, i could not publicly express my love for one of the best dancefloor the current techno-scene has to offer. for months, i have been trying to re-imagin an AV show as a photographer: analog, pure, physical, 1-image-says-it-all, .. this was extremely challenging as the work of a photographer is not as dynamic as a videographer or an AI-artist. but my goal is and always will be ‘trying to reflect an experience i absolutely love on the place i absolutely love: the dancefloor.’ being asked numerously times to exhibit in backstages, chill-areas, .. i never felt ready and complete enough to reflect my desired experiences as good as possible. being asked by many artists to collaborate for an AV show with my work, never fully alligned with my vision as the photographer i have become today.
Monasterio, thank u so so much to believe in me and my ideals. your vision made me discover my most favourite LIVE artist, Inquisitor. i could almost cry..
the only Atmosphere i crave, through my soul using stop-motion photography as my medium.
can’t wait for a new chapter with @inquisitor_music to start next week in a place which has my hearth since my first visit in 2021: Monasterio.
awake but forever dreaming, free from everything and everyone. Like it should be.
an intense and all-consuming love for music and self-expression as a photographer.
i continue an ongoing journey of discovery, learning and hapiness. My true and emotional connection to music provides the means of self-expression, identity and purpose in life.
that’s why i’m awake but always dreaming. Free from everything and everyone.
an Atmosphere i crave for..
track by @mrak_ofc
#stopmotion #photography
the only Atmosphere i crave.
1. ‘Holy Fire’ through my eyes @inquisitor_music
2. Monasterio Opening Night 2022 at Aglomerat
3. Monasterio 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY at Mutabor
4. ‘Time’ through my eyes.
5. a moment of perfection in Room 2 at Mutabor
6. ‘Assasin’ through my eyes @inquisitor_music
7. somewhere in the halls of Mutabor
8. Salem’s Secret
#stopmotion #photography
a very hot day with @charlottedewittemusic at Brunch Barcelona ☀️🌶️
Through my eyes and in stop-motion art. Art which allows me to express who and what i am as a photographer and what i love as a person. It’s also my way to distinguish myself among talented collegues and to create something unique and personal in a specific visual language.
beyond grateful to Brunch to trust my vision and project which has been seen around the world.
“never wanted to leave.. “
a re-mastered artwork from the depths of my soul.
track id: Jenny Of Oldstones (Wurtz & Iberian Muse Remix) - Florence + The Machine
immortalizing both familiar and new faces this weekend at NEWRAVE Festival (Lille) and Brunch (Barcelona).
awake but always dreaming.
continiously trying to set new horizons in event documentation.
starting a new Ibiza photo-residency at Amnesia 🏝️
This year, i’ll be reflecting my love for music through my signature and pure stop-motion art for @pyramidibiza during 6 Sundays this season.
awake but always dreaming 🪐
track id: La Vida by Jose Alves, dbasser, Peter Guzman (ft. Kaala Shaw)
dancer seen in Zürich some years ago @adroitofficial
GIB MIR ALLES on repeat since 2021.
after so many years of doing what i love, i’m still not 100% sure what makes a track special to me. Alongside a bad hearing since a very young age, i also lack musical expertise to form a true explaination for my choices within music.
one thing i’m certain of: i love music with my hearth, mind and soul. Together with my knowledge, precision and purity in photography, i’m able to shape this love into my signature art: stop-motion.
track by: O.B.I. & RWGK feat. Timo Revna
a mid-rave relic from 2022.
beyond proud to be in south america as a standalone artist this weekend for a big return in Colombia and a new beginning in Chile.
friday @respirafestival.cl Santiago 🇨🇱
saturday @doomfestival.co Bogotá 🇨🇴
where to go next? 🌎📷
stopmotion supported by an amazing piece of musical art from dear @rikhter_r23 @44labelgroup
exactly 7yrs ago, i received my very first opportunity to show a new and artistic style and presentation outside of my home country Belgium.
stop-motion animation continues to allow me to blend photography and music into a dynamic reflection of what heard, saw and felt during a night filled with Techno music.
as a university graduated photographer, i felt the urge to take this project more closer to my hearth and create the ongoing black&white look with attention to detail and purity. This was (and still is) my way to document a world i admire.
inspiring people and a scene on a global level at such a young age was very motivational and challenging but brought me to places around the world i could only have dreamt of in the very beginning.
i dance through my work, awake but forever dreaming.
it’s 2019 and I was trying to set new horizons and standards in event documentation. Having the best time doing allnighters and prepared to travel back home for hours with public transport straight after the events, was how i started to forge a hard path for everyone I inspired and came after me.
this artwork from 2019 was created in the morning at a warehouse somewhere in Paris. Together with my early love for the harder style, i chose this track of upcoming artist Nico Moreno to reflect my deep love for music.
5yrs later, i’m finally returning to a real warehouse event in France to create and translate that same old love for music and photography with a line-up that perfectly match a venue like this. I’m so ready for @newrave.ww this Saturday in Valenciennes.
awake but always dreaming.
free from everything and everyone.
track by my dear @nicomoreno_music 🫀
another (but refreshing) visual reflection of my endless love for music through stop-motion art.
Initially, the image sequences were supposed to come with a more electronic music sound, but listening so much film and other classical music in my free time and during touring, finally convinced me to expand my horizons.
Working several weeks on a 57seconds stop-motion video with classical music, gave me a sense of satisfaction i rarely felt before. Awake but forever dreaming.
dancer photographed at Alte Muenze in Berlin, 2023.
music: La Verdad from Manel Santisteban and Iván M. Lacámara (La Casa De Papel)
continuously trying to push boundaries and set new horizons to event documentation. this is my photographic interpretation of last Friday where Time Warp celebrated living legend and inspiration Sven Väth’s birthday, through my eyes in #stopmotion photographs.
awake but always dreaming. free from everything and everyone.
track id: The Brink by Modek
mid-rave for the very first time in Norway. Unforgettable and intimate warehouse scenes from New Era in Oslo from last Friday in #stopmotion photographs.
The trust i keep receiving to do what i love, free from everything and everyone, is beyond imagination. Awake but forever dreaming.
track id: Jupiter by dear @yanamaste
awake but forever dreaming
02/10 🇩🇪 Freiburg @hans_bunte_areal
04/10 🇳🇴 Oslo @neweraoslo
05/10 🇫🇷 Paris @brunchfrance_
06/10 🇪🇸 Ibiza @solomun +1 (Closing)
12/10 🇨🇭 Basel @nordsternbasel
16/10 🇳🇱 ADE @studios.808 x @808.oguz
17/10 🇳🇱 ADE @vault_sessions
19/10 TBC
25/10 🇩🇪 Mannheim @time_warp_official
26/10 🇨🇭 Zürich @maexzuerich
31/10 🇪🇸 Madrid @blackworksclub
images made at @44labelgroup Rotterdam
track by dear @rikhter_r23
free from everyone and everything..
still redefining and setting new horizons in nightlife photography with my signature stop-motion animations allowing me to actively combine my love for music and hold my profile as a graduated photographer.
Lea dancing in Basel @adroitofficial
On-repeat track by @djophidian
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