COALFACE is an international platform for photography and video. The platform is building the image and identity of industrial and post-industrial areas from a local context. COALFACE focuses on places in transition where revolutions - like the transition to a digital, multicultural and/or green society - exerts influence on identity. From this baseline, COALFACE examines today's society, in Flanders and in the world.

COALFACE is a meeting place where 'heritage', 'topicality' and 'diversity' cross-fertilise each other through artistic creations. Photography and video is being used to promote social creation.

Internationally, COALFACE is building up a network of people who live and work in areas where heavy industry impacts on the world in which we live. The photographic projects that COALFACE organises in other countries are opening up for the Limburg Mining Area a wider reference framework and creating fertile ground for interpersonal, cultural and economic cooperation.