Compagnie Gagarine is acclaimed for its portrait and concert photography. Celebrities covered by the agency in the past include Depeche Mode, Air, Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Placebo, Radiohead, Roisin Murphy, Christophe, Indochine, Jane Birkin, Jean Michel Jarre, Jeanne Moreau as well as Belgian bands and personalities like Vive La Fête, Gabriel Rios, Fien Troch, Ozark Henry, Bent Van Looy, Jonas Geirnaert, Sven Van Hees, Sarah Bettens, Daan, Arno, Neon Judgement, Wim Mertens, Axelle Red and Hooverphonic.

Equally important, however, is the agency’s architecture and travel photography, realising editorial and creative images in Belgium for travel guides, architects, designers and publishers, as well as travelling throughout Europe (France, Holland, Italy, Greece, Spain, England, Switzerland and Germany) to return with artistic impressions of those regions, its people, nature and architecture.

Compagnie Gagarine’s founder, Christophe Ketels, is the main photographer at the agency. What drives him is originality, the consistent attempt to photograph subjects from an original point of view, whether it is a building, monument, a person or concert.

Photography for Ketels is a constant search for that particular angle and light which no one has found before, or which no one has wanted to try before. It means leaving the normal conventional path and trying something unusual in order to allow emotion and amazement to take over. Perspectives that go far beyond the traditional images, as well as bringing details and objects to our attention which most of us would never have noticed. Just like the astronaut Youri Gagarin was the first man in space, where no man had gone before and what many

Ever since its creation, Compagnie Gagarine has constantly updated its equipment with the photographic industry’s top brands. 2008 sees the agency making its largest new investments thus far, bringing the company to a next level with the most superior digital and analogue photographic material, yet again to bring the agency a step closer to perfection and being able to offer the highest quality photography.

Enjoy several images of main photographer Christophe Ketels throughout this page, and have a look at the website www.compagniegagarine.com.