Welcome to Vespertine Offering
Vespertine Offering is a dark aesthetic collective with the emphasis on sinister and visually engaging storytelling.
| concept photography | band photography | professional image manipulation and editing | location scouting & excursions | dark aesthetic imagery & visualizations | concept, design and execution | storytelling |
First 2025 collaboration
I teamed up with the talented musician Stella for Strangers to create a captivating video blending her hauntingly beautiful music with my imagery. Experience the magic of Beneath the Shadows—watch now!
Volume 3 seamlessly continues the narrative from where part 2 left off, completing the ‘Gardens of Remembrance’ trilogy. Consistent with its predecessors, I’ve included the same four chapters: ‘Sepia shades‘, ‘In the shadows’, ‘Transitional’, and ‘Vividus’ – aiming to capture the essence of these abandoned spaces through my lens… ensuring the indispensable embrace of the ‘dark aesthetic’.
I hope this passionate endeavour ignites creativity, serves as a valuable inspiration or becomes a sanctuary for brief escapes into aesthetic dreams... of the dark kind.
The final tome is here!
“Being passionate graveyard photographers ourselves we’ve always admired Sven’s distinctive artistic vision, storytelling skills and unconventional sense of observation. While cemeteries are places where a lot of drama reigns, he manages to capture the beauty of these sacred spaces in a surprisingly serene way. Needless to say, Sven has an eagle eye that is second to none.“
— Mothmeister
Gardens of Remembrance: Necrography
‘Necrography’ serves as the collective title for the three volumes in the Gardens of Remembrance series. Created and published by Vespertine Offering, this collection delves into a photographic /historical voyage of discovery into our common and inescapable past only to become a sanctuary for brief escapes into aesthetic dreams... of the dark kind.
“The graveyards featured in Gardens of Remembrance offer a sense of timeless tranquility, their weathered gravestones and crumbling monuments bearing witness to human existence. The interplay of light and shadow, captured masterfully in black and white by the artist, creates a dramatic and evocative atmosphere.”
— Grimur
Other projects
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Eylger
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Monsieur le Six
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Button Bastard
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Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
Gardens of Remembrance
Gardens of Remembrance is a voyage of discovery into our common and inescapable past. Exploring abandoned, overgrown, faded, impoverished and –yes– unprosperous graveyards from olden times. Documenting the remaining beauty and grotesque nature of those decayed memories in a modern yet personal demeanour.
Deluxe hardcover edition
A4 Portrait, 300 pages
Weighs approx. 1.6 kilograms (3lb, 1.4 Oz)
Over 250 photos
Over 20 informative pages
Limited to 250 books per tome
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Tome 1
Sold out! (2022)
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Tome 2
Released 2023
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Tome 3
Released 2024
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Necrography
Released 2024
“Captivating! These photo books guide you through an incredible experience. Showcasing stunning images burial sites and the lingering beauty of deteriorated memories.”
— The Cranial Chaos
2024 Events
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De Duystere Markt, NL
April 14, 2024 – 10-18h
Rusheuvelstraat 5,
5346 JH Oss, NL -
De Rariteitenbeurs, BE
June 1, 2024
‘t Noorden: Armenstraatje 1/4
2040 Zandvliet, BE -
De Duystere Markt, BE
Date TBA
Thor park: André Dumontlaan 67
3600 Genk, BE