His progress since his beginnings, from RFC Meux to the Red Devils, has been the result of high quality work, recognized by his main client: the Belga agency.
Bruno Fahy devoted a long interview to us, discover it in the video at the top of this article.
“My name may not mean anything to you, but you probably know my photos”. It is with these lines that he begins his book “Stoppage time” (Chronica editions). And in fact, if his photos are published in all Belgian media and many European media, they are often only signed “Belgian”.
Bruno’s motivation to give the best of himself, to seek out the slightest fact of the game, the most beautiful emotions, is still intact after so many years. “The sadness (players, audience) marks me more than joy.”
On major tournaments
With three World Cups, three Euros and hundreds of European and Belgian championship matches, Bruno has accumulated thousands of photos.
“The hardest part was not choosing the best photos for the book, but discarding some for lack of space”. To choose is to give up!
But some of these photos were natural.
Among them, the one on the cover will forever remain an icon in the history of football: this historic handshake between Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne.
“It was at the World Cup in Brazil. But it’s more the celebration than the photo that is iconic.” Ten years later, we are still talking about this photo, which also earned its author the FWB journalism prize in 2014.
She has all the more weight in his heart because, for him, “a photo taken today will be gone tomorrow”. This is what the daily press is all about. Could this be THE photo of his career? “The photo of my career? It’s the one I hope to take tomorrow…”
Over the years, Bruno Fahy has earned the respect of his colleagues, but also that of players and coaches, who have reciprocated it by signing texts and captions in his book: from his friend Thomas Meunier to Axel Witsel, from KDB to MPH (insiders will have recognized De Bruyne and Preud’homme). Texts in which some will insist on the importance that a particular photo will have had, but above all the emotion that it will have given them.
Stoppages of play, freeze frames
From the historic duo Lukaku-De Bruyne to the disappointment of the last Euro, including the late Sterchele, the book “Stoppage time”by Bruno Fahy, retraces twenty years of Belgian football at the highest level.
Throughout the pages, we discover the richness of the archives of the author, photographer for the Belga agency.
Photos of significant football events, victories and defeats. Both joy and disappointment. Lots of emotion, humor too, because it is one of Bruno Fahy’s strengths, in addition to a sharp eye and constant attention.
The book will delight football fans and all those who, one day, have picked up a camera to immortalize their child’s first match, on a pitch deep in Wallonia.
The ideal gift for the upcoming end-of-year holidays.
“Stoppage of play”, by Bruno Fahy, with texts by David De Myttenaere, Éditions Chronica, 184 pages.
He will be at a signing session on Friday, November 29, at the Boninne community hall.
