Interview session with Bob Cools, still known as 'the mayor' over here even though it's been over ten years since he was the mayor in Antwerp. He was in charge of the city from 1982 (five years before I was born) untill 1994, under his administration the city prospered. Just to name one thing, Antwerp became Cultural Capital of Europe in '93. He's a really interesting guy and has lots of stories to tell. He's over 70 now but that doesn't stop him: two years ago he got his PhD degree at the university, with a work that touches probably the most important problem in current West-European society: immigration and integration problems.

He had a tiny bureau in a tiny apartment in one of the worst blocks in a not-so-cool neighbourhood of the city: his career certainly hasn't spoiled him. A true socialist. I have some other pictures from before and after the interview, but I think these go kinda well as a series.

90 2.0 and 50 1.2, ilford XP2

ps. Sorry for the big file, I wish there was another way of presenting them like a series on DA... ie like a slideshow as can be seen on flickr, RFF etc. Oh well. Deal with it!