For this year, I would like to start something new. At the end of every month, I’ll share a few photograhps taken that month. With these photograhps, I’ll share the backstory and reflect on what I have learned. Inviting you along this road.

I’ll start this year off with the end of last year.

The month of December.

Back in July of 2023 printshop and Publischer Chemistry invited me to join a project started by Over de Drempel and Acardia FRL. With this project, these organizations invited local creatives with all different disciplines to create a zine (A small magazine ) each of their own with one common topic: loneliness. With this project, I wanted to take a different approach to the way I work. Usually, I tend to work from a feeling, a mood. Instead of meticulously planning an image, I let the moment guide me. For this project however I wanted to try to more or less plan the images. So for about a month…..

As of this year [2024] I have gotten back into taking portraits. My passion for photography started with taking portraits. Especially when I discovered the black and white button in Lightroom. It was in 2019 when I took a portrait of the “Model.” Her face showed a play of light and dark with mesmerizing shadows of leaves, perfectly highlighting her eye. Turning this image into black and white…….