Amsterdam School of Burlesque
January 14th, 2018. Location: Boom! Chicago Burlesque show by the the Amsterdam School of Burlesque Video: 3:15 / 15 video stills
Stage photography
I am a studio photographer at heart. I like to control the lights, I love neutral backgrounds because there is no distraction of the person photographed. Of course it also has a timeless quality to it that I like. Seeing a photograph of a model photographed in an empty factory or an abandoned building automatically dates the photograph [...]
The Third Gender
There are already some previews on my Facebook profile and this site. It is probably the largest project I ever embarked on. It is my aim to photograph at least a hundred persons who express themselves with a total lack of conventions when it comes to gender stereotypes. In a way this project is the continuation of a series I started in [...]
The New Site
This new site is a make-over of the old one dating back to 2016. Although the previous one was responsive, this one is even better for use on phones and tablets. I am no fan of smart phones, but I do like to adjust to people visiting my site. Also, this site is way easier for me to update and I sincerely hope I will have more updates in [...]
A promise kept
While doing the make-over of this site I found a post about Dollification. In that text I promised to feature dolls in my portfolio. As I now realize, I never did. Maybe this was caused by a lack of models. Dolls are hard to find. It is easy enough to turn any human into doll, but I am no fashion photographer. I am always looking for [...]
Through The Past (1)
1977, Utrecht. It would be nice to say that I was working my way through college by working different jobs, but in fact I didn’t see much of the Art Academy. I had random jobs. I would also work as a photographer for the Adonis Bar, a gay club situated at the city’s main canal Oude Gracht. Occasionally I had a job at a [...]
Roxy Diamond
I am currently working on a series about Drag Queens. Gender diversity is a theme I have been working on since I started being serious about photography. This time I am also really serious about the idea of publishing a book with material ranging from the 1970s up to 2018. My goal is to photograph at least a hundred Drag Queens, so [...]