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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 systems that help creative work compound over time.

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

Writing

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999 Zines →

999 copies. 33 different zines. One message hidden across them all. Piece it together, follow the clues, and help uncover what comes next.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes →

And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.

Happy →

I’m on our balcony, deep inside our mamasan chair. It’s 27 degrees Celsius, 7PM in the evening. The

All we are is everything we take in →

A field trip to the Oosterscheldekering turns into a reflection on solitude, documentation, and the role photography plays in making sense of the world.

The Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier: a perpetual work in progress →

The Oosterscheldekering protects the Dutch coast from storm surges while preserving one of the country’s last tidal estuaries. A visit to Neeltje Jans reveals a landscape shaped by compromise, engineering and continuous maintenance.

How I organize photos in Lightroom (a simple system that scales) →

A simple Lightroom workflow built for long-term scalability. Learn how to organize photos using a single catalog, a Year > Month folder structure, metadata, Smart Collections, and backups that keep your archive searchable, approachable, and future-proof.
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a worker at the local Florance market, seen through glass.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes

And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
All we are is everything we take in

All we are is everything we take in

A field trip to the Oosterscheldekering turns into a reflection on solitude, documentation, and the role photography plays in making sense of the world.
Field trips for the greater good

Field trips for the greater good

More field trips for more interesting experiences for better stories and more interesting work.
sea foam blowing in the wind on the beach of Texel, the Netherlands.

Coastwork

An unplanned trip to Texel turned into a small field study of a coastline unlike any other. Being there, in the wind and water, brought back my fascination with the ocean and its edges.

Publications

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Dialogue (Blauwdruk exhibition)
Zine

Dialogue (Blauwdruk exhibition)

For my second time participating in the group-exhibition 'Blauwdruk 033' in my hometown, Amersfoort, I wanted to do something special. I'm bringing my monthly newsletter from the digital, to the analog space.
The Efflorescence
Book

The Efflorescence

A documentary project about Dutch festival and club culture finding its way back to relevance during pandemic times.
One Two One
Artist book

One Two One

A black and white square-format photography project made during the winter of 2020/2021.
the silence around photography project by Mitchel Lensink
Zine

The Silence Around

Panorama photos that allowed people to take a step back from the hectics of modern life.

Now

A lot has changed, and much has stayed the same. Despite threading carefully, I still developed a small knee-injury that requires physical therapy and a more controlled way of working out. Personal training in small groups is the affordable and sustainable solution, it seems.

I have not missed an entry for my monthly newsletter yet, though I did come close a couple of times the past few months. I have too many open loops and it's difficult to keep focus.

The traffic on my website has been tanking. I'm at 1.5K-ish monthly visitors right now. So I've been writing. About the things I care about and did a lot of thinking on. But the writing is difficult and strenuous. It wouldn't be if I kept focus. But I don't dare focus on one thing, for I fear it might be the wrong thing.

I'm working on video too, again. Once I finish this Now-post I'll probably dive back into the edit. I've been agonizing myself for a month on that edit already. As if this one video will be the 'big bang' I am looking for, exposure wise. 

Perhaps that's what it is I'm looking for: exposure. But I believe exposure is earned, not given. And you earn it by doing cool shit that people care about. As long as the audience doesn't, at least not en masse, then the only thing left is to continue working. Hoping someday it pays off.