Exciting photo-editors book me for their portraits and stories.
Clients are media like: Le Monde, Die Welt, the Guardian, De Morgen, De Standaard, AD, Trouw, Knack, Der Spiegel, Times Magazine, Psychology Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Borgerhoff Lamberigts and maybe you're next.
In my photography I focus on humans. The human side of life and news is what interests me. General news, or background stories on politics, nature, social issues keep me alive.
In my spare time I create artworks using paint, wax, clay and do graphic works and installations using etching and lithographic techniques.
Next to all this I'm totally into genealogy, art, a volunteer in some organisations, and I love sailing and biking.
I try to live a balanced live, doing most of my assignments by bicycle or public/shared transport and shooting only one or few assignments per day.
PERSONAL
I grew up in the woods. First in a small village in the Netherlands, later in Groningen, a city in the North. As a young boy I worked as a sailing- and windsurfing teacher all holidays. I started studying Cultural Anthropology, did my duty in the army, worked in a camera store for years, and finally went back to school learning all ins and outs of photography at the Royal Art academy in The Hague.
After shooting commercial photography for over 10 years in Rotterdam I moved to Belgium in 2007. Here I re-focused on working in photojournalism and portrait photography.
Concerning fine art photography I focused on analog photography and the use of Artificial Intelligence. While working for the media, I also visited another art academy, to develop my graphic skills like etchings and lithography. Now I am mainly working around Artificial Intelligence, NFT's, bureaucracy, migration and other subjects that interest me where I use photography, graphic art, video and installations.
I'm a happy freelance photographer, an artist and also a teacher at my own creative organisation called KUNSTKOT.BE and for some other organisations in Brussels and around.
Brussels local Dutch speakers' radio station Bruzz asked me to talk bout three best or funniest images of the last year.