Poike Stomps, (born in 1977, Zeist, the Netherlands), graduated in photography BDES (2006) at HKU Academy of Art Utrecht. Working as a social documentary photographer in Amsterdam, exploring human behavior/interaction, doing long-term projects and assignments.
He works in the fields of slow journalism, documentary, reportage, portrait, and art photography.
With his series Crossing Europe, he won a Silver Camera ( ‘Zilveren Camera’ in Dutch)
After this project, he started a similar project in the US.

The book of my Crossing Europe project is self- published and presented in Amsterdam on 29th January 2016.