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Mountains & Clouds
January 25, 2016
Just got back from a skiing trip in Austria. So lucky to have had so much snow. The mountains, the mist and all that whiteness, it’s all so mesmerizing. Hopefully, at one point in my life, I get to live in the mountains for a little while.
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Kumasi
December 29, 2015
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
- Nelson Mandela
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8000 followers on instagram!
December 9, 2015
Join 8000 others by following me on instagram or like my facebook page… or do both! I’m posting a single photo each day on both platforms. See you there!
https://www.instagram.com/photosarebullets
https://www.facebook.com/photosarebullets
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Valerie
December 6, 2015
After training hard for six months straight, Valerie needed photos to enter into her first international fitness contest. Good luck Valerie, bring home the trophy!
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Laurens
November 16, 2015
One could argue that your portrait is best made by he who knows you best. He who is able to tell if ripples on your surface are caused by diving deep or merely by the wind.
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Chris
November 10, 2015
What a gorgeous family they are! Chris surprised her man with a secret photo shoot one rainy autumn morning.
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Madame de Pompadour
October 20, 2015
This Friday I took some portraits at Madame de Pompadour’s beautiful salon in Utrecht. She had a vintage hairstyling workshop and asked me to capture the results by taking photos of the ladies attending. Considering the fact I had only 1 light and 5 minutes per portrait, it turned out…
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Mike Wojniak: Great Britain tour 2015
October 6, 2015
So the full album from Mike Wojniak’s tour through Great Britain is online. In this ongoing project I follow Mike as he tours through the United States and other parts of the world. This time I followed him to Scotland, Wales and England from September 14th till September 28th. I…
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Agnesz Anna Cruel World
October 4, 2015
A few months ago I took photos for Agnesz Anna’s new ep called Cruel World. Tonight is the launch party in ‘De Melkweg’ in Amsterdam. Congratulations Agnesz!
Download Cruel World on iTunes
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Britain tour with Mike Wojniak
September 19, 2015
So I’m on this tour with the wonderful Mike Wojniak and we just got back from the Scottish Highlands where we stayed with Rod and Penny in a mesmerizing little place called Appin. Will post a full album once we get back, but here are is one already, all the…
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Marrit
September 3, 2015
Every now and again parents will ask you for a recent photo, that’s when I come into the picture.
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The Man of Steel
August 31, 2015
Friday evening Tom Staal, Utrecht’s own talkshow host, tv reporter and radio man, sat on a chair in front of my black backdrop. I’ll let him explain the rest… in Dutch (sorry)
“Nog eentje dan, wederom van Bas Niemans Je zit dan wel twee uur stil, maar damn, dit wordt…
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Paluka
August 29, 2015
Paluka is a talent and development outfit located in the middle of the woods. So when they ask you for portraits of all the staff, what do you do? Yes, you head into the woods!
http://paluka.nl/wij-zijn/team
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Announcing GEONATUUR
August 20, 2015
I am pleased to announce ‘Geonatuur’, a series of 5 collaborative works, between graphic designer Paul Wolterink and myself. The works are a mix of sharp photographic prints, shot in the overwhelming landscape of Yosemite, combined with a top layer of glass-clear translucent vinyl floating 3 millimeters above the photo-prints…
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Dragonfly
August 19, 2015
Experimenting with new techniques for a new project.
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Francesca fantauzzi
August 15, 2015
The gorgeous Francesca Fantauzzi from www.tipjarmakeup.com came by for a little afternoon shoot and some homemade icetea. With eyes like that my job is like stealing candy from a baby!
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El Flaco
August 9, 2015
A quick and dirty portrait of my beautiful Nicaraguan friend Chepito. Come back soon, flaco!
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Yoyas
August 4, 2015
I had a great time yesterday, shooting Yoyas’s beautiful food (no, not only because I could taste it afterwards, although that surely helped). They truly are a passionate bunch! If you live in the Zaandam area, be sure to pay them a visit!
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http://www.yoyas.nl
Yoyas on facebook
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Casting photos for mr Alexander
August 1, 2015
But what makes a good casting photo? There’s a big difference between an artistic portrait and a headshot for casting purposes. We want to portray the real you, not a romanticized or over edited version of you. Overall we are looking for an open and kind expression, someone people would…
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Wildflowers
July 22, 2015
Yesterday, while running, I passed through this amazing field full of wildflowers. I just had to go back and bring some home.
Earth laughs in flowers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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La belle Joëlle
July 11, 2015
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”-Phyllis Diller
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Life in the Shadows
July 9, 2015
Today I made this photo for http://www.sndvu.nl. This is the second photo in a conceptual series in which I portray some of the foundation’s clients to show how implementing generic immigration policies in individual cases can lead to absurdity
Life in the Shadows, shows a man from Sierra Leone who…
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Mister Julianto
June 10, 2015
Yesterday Ronnie Julianto from The Ink Warriors came by for a shoot. I realized tattoos are much like photos, they tell your version of the story and every time you look at them, they bring you back in time.
www.inkwarriors.com
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Lovely Mireille
May 21, 2015
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen
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Instagram #16
May 5, 2015
Don’t you just love the fact that by being born in The Netherlands, through no accomplishment of your own, you can travel to basically anywhere in the world? Granted, some embassies make you stand in line for a visa somewhat longer than other embassies will, and then when it’s finally…