About me, a small bio
When I was eleven my father built a darkroom in the attic. This little room full of equipment, chemicals, and hanging sheets of paper fascinated me. To me, everything in the room was strange: the red lights, the trays of fluid, and especially the huge enlarger device.
I was a curious youngster, so I watched my father as he spent hours in his private workspace. One day, I watched as he put a negative into the enlarger and placed a white sheet of paper below the lens. He switched on the light of the enlarger When he moved the photo paper to the first tray I watched, amazed, as a faint image appeared. The image became stronger and stronger until my father moved the sheet to the second tray and the process stopped. I had seen the miracle of development for the first time. Photography had stolen my heart.
Selfie with iphone shadow
When I was old enough to work I got a part-time job as a paperboy. I spent most of my wages on photographic paper and chemicals. I remember that my parents gave me money for my driver’s license when I was 18 and, instead of using it for their intended purpose, I spent that money on my first secondhand Hasselblad, an old 500 cm with an eighty-millimeter lens. I shot in black and white and spent hours in my darkroom, just like my dad, cutting masks, trying different chemistry, re-toning prints with self brewed toners, and improving my craft.
After studying chemistry, a small misstep, I decided to make photography my profession. I went to art school and specialized in photography and established myself as a photographer. In the early days, this consisted primarily of documentary photography and renting myself to other studio’s to get jobs done. I learned to work fast. I shot pants, socks, towels, hammers, gardening tools, car rims, cakes, potatoes, and packaging. You name it … I probably shot it.
Now, decades after starting my journey, I’ve become a perfectionist. I’ve worked with the biggest names in automotive, gas, financial, and tech industries. These companies have come to trust my ability to make their ideas a reality.
I’m as eager to learn and improve my skills as I was when I was a youngster. That’s why I’ve trained myself in CGI–so I can make images that capture the imagination, even if they’re not possible in real life.
Over the years I’ve worked for many clients, this is an overview:
Arranged per branch of industry
Automotive
- Chevrolet
- Citroen
- Fiat
- Ford
- Hyundai
- Mitsubishi
- Nissan
- Peugeot
- Renault
Computer and electronics
- Apple Inc.
- Canon
- JVC
- Philips
- Samsung
Coatings
- AkzoNobel
- Boonstoppel
- Flexa
- Histor
- Lesonal
- Pro Gold
- Sigma coatings
- Sikkens
- Veveo
Financials
- Abn/Amro
- American express
- Ing Bank
- Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Rabobank
- Sns Bank
- Van Lanschot
- Visa
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
- Actimel
- Aviko
- Airwick
- Bambix
- Biodermal skin care
- Calgonit
- Cêlavita
- Choco Prince
- Coolbest
- Conimex
- Cote d’or chocolate
- Danoontje
- Davitamon
- Douwe Egberts Senseo
- Edet
- Elmex
- Evian
- Fruitella
- Hak
- Heineken
- Heinz ketchup
- Hertog
- Johma salads
- Knorr
- Lay’s
- Liga
- ‘l Oreal
- Lu
- Maaslander cheese
- Parodontax
- Prodent
- Raak
- Sensodyne
- Struyk
- Swarzkopf
- Mascotte
- Milka chocolate
- Mora
- Nutella
- Ola
- Old Amsterdam cheese
- Olvarit
- Pickwick
- Venz
- Vifit
- Wagner pizza
- Wella
- Yakult
- Zendium
Insurance companies
- Allianz/Elvia
- Europeesche verzekeringen
- FBTO
- Interpolis
- Generali
- Nationale borg
- Ohra
- Proteq
- Reaal
- RVS
- VGZ
- Zorg en Zekerheid
Government
- Belastingdienst (tax payers office)
- GVU Utrecht city transport
- Landmacht (Dutch army)
Miscellaneous
- Axa
- Bertelsmann music group
- Burgerking
- Caz radio
- Diversey lever
- EMI music group
- Eneco
- Essent
- Esso
- Gazelle
- Hallmark
- Harpers Bazaar magazine
- Kentucky fried chicken
- Kinki kappers
- KLM / Air France
- Knip mode magazine
- Laurentis coffee
- Miele
- Miljoenenjacht
- NS Dutch railroad
- Nuon
- Piazza d’Oro coffee
- Playboy magazine
- Randstad
- Shurgard
- Staatsloterij
- Tefal
- TNT
- Varta batteries
Retail
- Bol.com
- Bouwmaat
- C1000
- ICI Paris
- Lidl
- Pearle
- Praxis
- V&D
Pharmaceutical companies
- Chefaro
- Eli Lilly
- Glaxo Smith Kline
- Omega Pharma
- SPMD
Service providers
- KPN
- T-mobile
- Telfort
Non profit
- Aidsfonds
- Amnesty international
- Artsen zonder grenzen (doctors without borders)
- Dokters van de wereld
- Metropool orchestra
- Natuurmonumenten
- Stichting Lezen en Schrijven
- Stichting Tegenkracht