About
My practice as a documentary photographer is to make the uncomfortable comfortable. Focussing on absurdities and disabilities, I tell other peoples stories, through portraiture and still lives. I put up a studio in peoples personal spaces, using flash to manipulate the scene and re-stage reality. My visuals are clean and calm.
Not only am I fascinated by portraying people but also animals.
Returning themes in my work are biology, anatomy, history, taxidermy. In other words: life. Life with its ups but also its downsides like depression, death, illness.While these are aspects that others might avoid I believe in engaging with rather than avoiding, in normalizing the uncomfortable, accepting discomfort and making everything debatable.
My final work is mostly presented as a book, so you can keep it for yourself just like I want to collect and keep things for myself.
I make editorials for magazines, newspapers, campaigns and other commercial work. Whatever the assignment, I add my own visual style to it.
Educations:
2018-2022, Photography, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (KABK) the Netherlands
2006-2009, Musician, Dutch Pop Academy, Utrecht the Netherlands
Past exhibitions:
2024.08.13/2024.08.15, Lens&Canvas, The Hague, NL
2024.04.22/2024.06.28, Sanquin, Amsterdam, NL
2024.01.31/2024.02.04, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam, NL
2023.12.01/2023.12.03, By Photographers, Amsterdam, NL
2023.03.08, Tha Hague Finest, The Hague, NL
2023.01.26, Take a Break, The Hague Central Station, NL
2023, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam, NL
2022, De Hofgalerie, The Hague, NL
2022, KABK, Graduation show, The Hague, NL
Publications:
2022, Felis Silvestris Catus, Hard cover book (photography & text) Self-published
Published in:
De Volkskrant, NRC, AD, Jazzism, Opzij!, Leven Magazine, Nouveau, Mijn Geheim