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.
He created series exposing the way we handle death, about multicultural street life, about the youth of The Faroer Islands, or life with dementia. The last 12 years he captured the life with his father.
Besides his personal work he aims his camera at shadows of passing airplanes trying to catch the impact the phenomenon may have on people and animals. And he observes people crossing street in his 42 European Capital Crossings project.
He now works on a American follow up of this project, Crossing the USA. covering all states of the America. The first trip will be in May 2017.
It will be a journey across all capital cities in all the 50 States of the USA.
I will capture life of the Americans in their country. Besides that I will document my travels and will follow multiple stories on the road, on subject such as the energy transition and what people think about the current situation.
How has American society and/or government been dealing with these issues? With Trump as President, I think this topic is more relevant than ever.
I hope is makes a good cross section of the American identity and its inhabitants and for sure it will be an interesting road-trip.
With his series Crossing Europe he won a Silver Camera ( ‘Zilveren Camera’ in Dutch). It is an Photo Prize for the best Dutch innovative photojournalism.
I won the 1st prize in the category Documentary International (series).
The book of this project is self- published and presented in Amsterdam at 29th January 2016.
Title: Crossing Europe
Subtitle: As far as the eye can see
Photography: Poike Stomps
Publisher: Poike Stomps Books ( self published)
Design: Kummer & Herrman
ISBN/EAN: 978-90-824261-1-3
More info:
http://www.poike.nl/crossing-europe
Poike Stomps Books