Documentary family and portret photographer.
I am often told that I am a man with many hobbies. "You do everything, don't you?" And well, I can't deny that. I have a curious mind and try a lot of things and often something sticks. That's how it went with skating, (wind)surfing, getting my motorcycle license, learning to work on a motorcycle and recently with the rebuilding of an old moped that I ran into. I get a lot of fun out of this and it gives me lots of energy.
What I experience in these hobbies is the rough, pure and real sense of life. Jumping off a kerb on your skateboard has something pure. No focus and you will fall, too tense and you will fall, too many other things in your head, and you will fall. So there has to be some kind of balance between focus and relaxation... so that everything in your head disappears into the background and you only have room for that moment, and that, I think, is 'real'. Either you fall horribly on your face or you jump off that kerb and drive on smoothly. Isn't that a wonderful metaphor for life?
Yes, and what does that have to do with my pictures? Everything. I'm always looking for pure and real moments when I take pictures. As much as possible as life is and goes. Life consists of so many things that have to be done, that are supposed to be or that are not allowed. Leave it! Let it be, it doesn't matter, beautiful moments arise everywhere, I'll capture them.
