When your life is compromised by disease, you are banished to the realm of the broken. Once you are there, there is no turning back. A part of you always stays in that domain, even when your health is restored. Your memories, dreams and desires are tainted by this banishment […]
Books / Projects
Between 1995 and 1999 I have been photographing in the monastery care home Berchmanianum (B.) in Nijmegen. My work consists of staged portraits of the priests who live and work there, but also still-life photos of the surroundings and the interior of the monastery. A monastery care home (KVH) is […]
In 2007 I was asked for a very special project. IAA Architects wanted to make a special interior design for a geriatric ward in the Solis ‘Groote en Voorster’, a home for the elderly in my home town Deventer. We came up with big photo wallpaper for the general rooms […]
What can I add? Why not take tractors as an excuse to photograph the landscape in several European countries when you’re cycling through them?
Since 2003 I started to photograph men who are in their first year of fatherhood. I started this project because I wanted to capture the pride, love and vulnerability of men who start a new chapter in their lives; being a father. I was curious if they had the same […]
A Manual of how to Disperse your Husbands Ashes in 30 Days on 30 Different Locations, while Cycling to Rome. In this project, each day (starting 7th. of July 2017) I uploaded a photo of the location where the ashes were dispersed. I continued to do so until I reached […]
Male prostitution is, from a photographic point of view, a very tempting but dangerous subject. The visual pitfalls are numerous. Of course it is tempting to photograph good-looking, nude boys on a bed, who do not want to be recognised and therefore have turned away their heads. Pictured that way […]