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Hello, I’m Kristine.

Photographer, wanderer, and full-time admirer of small beautiful things. I built My Pretty Belgium to show the country I love the way it deserves to be seen.

Kristine, the photographer and storyteller behind My Pretty Belgium
Based in
Brussels,
Belgium
The person behind the lens

I fell for Belgium slowly —
then all at once.

It started with an ordinary walk and an extraordinary light. A side street in Brussels I’d passed a hundred times suddenly glowed amber, and I reached for my camera. That single frame turned into a habit, the habit into a passion, and the passion into My Pretty Belgium.

I’m drawn to the quiet magic this country keeps tucking away — a courtyard behind a heavy wooden door, fog lifting off a canal, the exact minute the sun hits a row of stepped gabled rooftops. I photograph Belgium the way you’d describe a place you love to a close friend: honestly, warmly, and with a little wonder.

Through my second account, @downtown_colors, I explore the bolder, brighter side of the same world — the painted doors, the markets, the colour hiding in plain sight. Together they’re two halves of how I see: the soft and the vivid.

What I believe

Beautiful, but true.

My north star is simple: make people feel something, and make it real enough that they can find it themselves.

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Light over everything

I plan around golden hours, soft fog and quiet mornings. The right light turns an ordinary street into a memory.

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Honest beauty

No fake skies or borrowed places. What you see is what you’ll find — that trust is everything to my community.

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Stories that travel

A great image makes someone pause. A great story makes them pack a bag. I aim for the second one.

A little more about me

When I’m not behind the camera

  • ✦I’m probably scouting a sunrise spot most people sleep through, coffee in hand.
  • ✦I collect hidden cafés, family-run bakeries and the best waffle in every town (it’s research).
  • ✦I shoot on foot — slow travel, local first, always respectful of the places I photograph.
  • ✦I genuinely reply to my community. Many trips you’ll see started as a DM asking “where is this?”
See what I create →
A misty morning in Bruges
A lively street in old Bruges
Saperlipopette bakery, Liège
The Brussels flower market by the Grand-Place
In her words

“I don’t want you to just like the photo. I want you to feel like you’ve already started planning the trip.”

— Kristine

Nice to meet you

Let’s tell your story next.

If you look after a destination, a hotel or a brand with a beautiful corner of Belgium to share, I’d love to hear about it.