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My photography starts with people — their gestures, their emotions, their rituals — and moves outward from there.
In my street and documentary work, I'm drawn to moments of community and joy, or to that quiet instant in a crowd that somehow carries its own weight. In my art-nude work, the body is displayed as an invitation to look and reflect. Such images I use to tell stories and to provoke viewers to challenge their beliefs and assumptions. My conceptual work takes a different approach: found objects, unexpected pairings, and compositional tension is used to unleash emotional undercurrents. And through my "songs" series, I follow the thread from music — melody, rhythm, and a particular lyric — into images. Across all of it, I try to find a balance between intimacy and distance. Close enough to feel real, but strange enough to stay with you. I don't want viewers to simply see what I saw — I want them to find something of their own in these series. Whatever the setting, I try to make images that speak for themselves, and reward those who look twice. Back in 2019, I was honored to be chosen as a finalist in the Ed van der Elsken "Lust for Life" competition, organized by the Netherlands Fotomuseum. My own "lust for life" is the unseen driver of many of these images. A catalogue with a complete listing of the series posted on this site can be downloaded here. Click the titles in the catalogue to open each series. Collaboration is always welcome. Guidelines for working on a TFP basis can be found here. For more information, please contact me at: [email protected] or via the contact form below. |
Yasse-onna
Pierced
Projecting Mondrian
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