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Mitchel Lensink

Systemic thinker, photographer, writer.
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Hi, I’m Mitch.
I take photos, write stuff, and build tools to understand the work and the world around it.

The monthly newsletter is where I share new work, essays, and ideas about creativity and deliberate living. Join below — or read previous issues first.

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How to tell stories online →

For years I thought I was simply exploring and taking photos. Only later did I realize I was repeating a pattern: go out, collect, return, interpret, publish, repeat. This issue maps the loop that turns wandering into a creative practice.
Office

Mexico, a retrospective →

A look at a country I like a lot, but no longer love. And "it's not you, it's me" I want to tell it, if countries had ears to hear it. Because it really is me and who I am today. But, who knows, another 10 years might do wonders.
Studio

Playa del Carmen (yes, I am sorry) →

Hey man, let's be real: Playa del Carmen is a tourist hub. It's fake in all
Monologue

Mérida, Yucatán →

Oh wonderfully interesting but, apparently, forgettable Mérida. Forgettable for me, specifically, I must say.
Field

Puerto Escondido →

Or Punta de Zicatela, more specifically. Because that's definitely the place you want to be right now if you come here.
Field

Spanish →

Just enough to keep us afloat. That's my level of Spanish. At least it was during our first few days in Mexico. Some skills acquired about ten years ago and slowly eroded since, now carefully getting its dust wiped off.
Monologue
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Covering
Walking

Covering

A long-term photography project where I walk every street of a place and photograph what I encounter along the way.

Photo essays

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Capturing a writing camp: my friends make music, I take photos →

The second edition of my Doe Gewoon writing camp photo essays. Is this going to be a series?
Dialogue

Inside the beautifully chaotic mind of ReinCarnatie →

'Hey, so what if I just made a painting right here on the spot so you can see what materials I use, what my process is, and I just talk you through it a little bit?' Rein casually mentions while he pours me a coffee. I look up at him: 'That's exactly what I would love you to do right now', I reply.
Dialogue

Documenting a writing camp and announcing the giveaway winner →

Two things this week. I joined my friends of Doe Gewoon on their writing camp to photograph their process of making music. And, the moment you've all been waiting for, the winner of the fine art print giveaway is here! Let's not waste any time.
Dialogue

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Writing Dialogue, my monthly newsletter about photography, exploration and other things, Closer, my weekly newsletter exploring photography in the age of AI, and Packless, the efficient travel photography toolkit.

Photographing for my long-term projects Covering (working title Things I Have Seen), where I walk every street of my hometown, Crossing, where I walk a city from North to South or West to East to understand what a cross-section of a city looks like, and your pets (if you want me to), as service to people that love their pets and wish to preserve the memory of their lives.

Living in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

Working at ILGM as the Head of DXP.

Experiences

Publications

2023

Karpathos in between: a photo essay — Field Guide (limited zine)

2023

The Efflorescence

2021

One Two One (artist book, unique edition)

2020

The Silence Around


Exhibitions

2023

Dialogue @ Blauwdruk 033, Kunsthal KAdE

2023

De Ontluiking (Extended) @ Oost West

2022

De Ontluiking @ Stadscafé

2020

The Silence Around @ Public Library Amersfoort

2020

The Silence Around @ Blauwdruk FLUOR

2018

Larlboro Might Release party @ Tjommies

2017

Wildlife @ Tjommies

2015

No Days Off @ Voltage


Work

2025 - present

Founder at 33punt

2019 - 2026

Head of DXP at ILGM.com


Education

2016 - 2017

Master of Science (MSc), Social Pyschology at Utrecht University

2012 - 2015

Bachelor of Science in (BSc) General Social Sciences at Utrecht University