Joke Timmermans is a Belgian photographer, journalist and lecturer with a deep rooted passion for words, images and arts. Her photographic style is dynamic and diverse: from street scenes to telling portrait series.
About Joke
PIET STOCKMANS
Verhalen
achter de scherven
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Piet Stockmans, Verhalen achter de scherven - written and photographed by journalist and photographer Joke Timmermans, brings together fragmented memories, personal confessions, and compelling images. The result: not a classic biography, but a mosaic of stories that bring Stockmans, the man and the artist, closer than ever.
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Send an email to joketimmermans@me.com
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Then, Now & Next: stay up-to-date
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'Drag' - 10.07 < 13.09.2025
Photographer and journalist Joke Timmermans portrayed seven drag performers through striking images and personal testimonies. Their stories are raw, honest, and surprisingly relatable. They reveal drag performers as human beings of flesh and blood—each with their own path, identity, and struggle. The exhibition DRAG challenges clichés and uncovers who truly lies behind the makeup: intelligent, courageous, and beautiful people who push boundaries and break taboos.
Expo ‘Drag’
Bibliotheek Hasselt Limburg
10.07 < 13.09.2025 -
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'Sichtbar Machen' - 14.09 < 30.10.2025
In 2018, while wandering the streets of Manhattan, Joke Timmermans crosses paths with the free-spirited 80-year-old Liz Friedman—and something special unfolds: a friendship. Liz is a model, influencer, activist, and jewelry designer. Gradually, over the years, she allows the photographer—forty years her junior—into her extravagant world. The camera captures their growing bond: from carefully staged portraits to spontaneous, intimate moments.
Group exhibition ‘SICHTBAR MACHEN’
Cultureel Centrum Hasselt
14.09 < 30.10.2025
With: Jennifer Baron, Mies Cosemans, Daphne Godschalk, Diana Hertz, Carla Kogelman, Daphne Lucker, Peter Penders-Cruz, Jody Steyls, Joke Timmermans, Lin Woldendorp -
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BOOK
Book Launch – October 17, 2025
For over six decades, Belgian porcelain artist Piet Stockmans has shaped an extraordinary body of work — from royal tableware to radical experiments.
On the eve of his 85th birthday, he joins writer and photographer Joke Timmermans to tell his story.
Not a classic biography, but fragments — shards that together sketch an intimate, imperfect, and deeply human portrait.
Richly illustrated with archival images and Timmermans’ own photography.Book launch, 17.10.2025
Studio Pieter Stockmans
Publisher Hopper & Fuchs -
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‘From 'Where I stand', 22.03 < 08.05.2026
From Where I Stand, Joke Timmermans presents two worlds: her own home and life in New York. With tireless curiosity and a sharp, intuitive eye, she explores these places. She seeks out disarming moments—whether in portraits, street scenes, orstill lifes. Her images may appear orchestrated, yet nothing could be further from the truth.
Expo ‘From where I stand’
Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen
22.03 < 08.05.2025
Introduction: Rik Vanpuymbroeck & Stijn Meuris
SELF-PORTRAITS
The series ‘Portraits from Home’ are self-portraits that were created in the summer of 2020 and are a profound search for light, color, form and composition in the photographers own house.
Self-portrait in doorway.
Self-portrait on stairs.
Self-portrait in bath.
“From now on I am the proud owner of one of the most beautiful pictures I ever saw: ‘Playing Girl’ of Joke Timmermans.”
– Bart D, buyer
OLD MASTER-PIECES
In Old Master Pieces, the photographer ties in with themes related to the metaphors of the old still life tradition. She extracts contemporary, universal objects out of their primordial context, and places them in a framework that evokes the atmosphere of the old masters from the 15th-18th century. In her photo studio she retains the freedom to experiment with composition, lighting, texture and form.