Snow, spring light, shadows, and the night.

Not a lot of photos to share this month. However, I have taken photographs every day of the month for a project. I choose not to share these because they belong together printed.

I have been thinking a lot about when to share photograhps

As promised at the end of every month I will share a few photographs’'s taken the month. This week’s selection contains 2 portraits, a self-portrait, Landscapes, and some still life’s taken in my Atelier and a behind-the-scenes of a commercial shoot.

Back in 2023 me and my best friend wanted to travel again. So we did what everyone does and opened Google Maps and picked out a random location. Athene or Istanbul our choice was easy.

And so we went to Istanbul not knowing what to expect I don’t read up on travel destinations I like to be surprised and discover the destination myself. That’s what travel photograhpy to me is about.

For this year, I would like to start something new. At the end of every month, I’ll share a few photograhps taken that month. With these photograhps, I’ll share the backstory and reflect on what I have learned. Inviting you along this road.

I’ll start this year off with the end of last year.

The month of December.

Back in July of 2023 printshop and Publischer Chemistry invited me to join a project started by Over de Drempel and Acardia FRL. With this project, these organizations invited local creatives with all different disciplines to create a zine (A small magazine ) each of their own with one common topic: loneliness. With this project, I wanted to take a different approach to the way I work. Usually, I tend to work from a feeling, a mood. Instead of meticulously planning an image, I let the moment guide me. For this project however I wanted to try to more or less plan the images. So for about a month…..

As of this year [2024] I have gotten back into taking portraits. My passion for photography started with taking portraits. Especially when I discovered the black and white button in Lightroom. It was in 2019 when I took a portrait of the “Model.” Her face showed a play of light and dark with mesmerizing shadows of leaves, perfectly highlighting her eye. Turning this image into black and white…….