Where no one is, that’s where I long to be.

For as long as I can remember, I have carried small stones in my pockets. They come from places where I found silence, where time became tangible. These stones have existed long before me and will outlive me. They remind me that I am only passing through.

The Earth is in constant motion. Processes seem to repeat endlessly while simultaneously creating change. Each element follows its own rhythm—time is not a straight line but a network of interconnected processes that influence, repeat, and transform. We humans are not the center of this story, but nothing more than a fleeting phase in something far greater.

For my photography, I seek emptiness. Not to escape the world, but because it is there that I feel part of something greater than our existence. Beyond the noise of the modern world and the narratives we tell ourselves, the Earth simply is. In that vastness, I feel small—and it is precisely in that insignificance that I find peace.

My work is a search for this connection. I move between digital and analog techniques, drawn to black and white for its quiet clarity. Stripped of color, only the essence remains—textures, contrasts, the quiet erosion of time. Some images I print by hand as Toyobo etchings, others I tear or crease, allowing the image to shape itself. Nothing is fixed. Everything shifts.

Humanity is neither a beginning nor an end. We are a brief passage in a story that began without us and will continue beyond us. My work is an attempt to hold that story—not to explain it, but to feel it.

BIO

As a child, I could lose myself in drawing, crafting for hours, and creating compositions. At the Graphic Lyceum in Utrecht, I learned to understand the language of images and briefly worked in the graphic industry. Yet, life took me elsewhere. I chose science and became a researcher—yet my camera was never far. Photography remained my first love—a way not just to see the world, but to feel it.

After completing my PhD in legal psychology, I lived and worked abroad for a while. In 2019, I made a decision I had long felt coming. I left my academic career behind, picked up my camera, and stepped off the beaten path. Not because I was searching for answers, but because I wanted to keep asking questions—in images, not in words.

2024

DEBUT EXPO, 12 - 22 december, Westergas, Amsterdam

Artist-book, Gaia is here to stay

Conceptueel beeldmaker, Fotoacademie Amsterdam

Kiekiekrant, The talent issue, December 2024

PF fotografie magazine, Nieuw talent onthuld, #8 2024

Workshop Platinum-palladium printen, Atelier Zilverbeek

2023

Workshop Liquid emulsion, Atelier Zilverbeek

Workshop Toyobo printen, AGA-lab Amsterdam

EXPO, module Verdieping en reflectie, Fotoacademie Amsterdam

Publication, Dutch Street Magazine, Issue 3, pag. 82

2020

Fotovakschool, basis opleiding, Rotterdam