Photography gives me a reason to explore. Long walks, unfamiliar places, and ordinary streets tend to reveal things you would otherwise overlook. I document what I find along the way: everyday scenes, quiet landscapes, small details, and the occasional moment that feels worth keeping.

Much of this work ends up in my monthly newsletter Dialogue, where I share photographs, essays, and ideas that emerge from these explorations.

Alongside the writing and images. I’m also slowly building a few small frameworks and toolkits — like Advance and Packless — that help me understand how creative work actually unfolds and how to live and work with a bit more intention.

My background is in Social Psychology (MSc), which probably explains my fascination with how people move through places and how environments shape behavior. Though perhaps the wonder came before the studies, depending on how you look at it.

Right now I’m especially drawn to long walks through landscapes — including a loose plan to one day walk the entire Dutch coastline and see what reveals itself along the way.

I’m not very active on social media, but I do read my email.

You can also watch this video if you want to learn a little more about me.

Tech Stack

Running a solo business as a photographer and writer (creator, entrepreneur, whatever you want to call it) is as easy as it’s ever been but still benefits from quite a few tools. You can find the list of my essentials and the money I pay for them below.

Tool Category Purpose Cost
Ghost (aff) Publishing My website and newsletter platform. Fast, minimal, and focused on writing rather than endless configuration. €300 per year
Shopify Basic Commerce Runs my shop for selling books, zines, and digital products. Handles payments, orders, and delivery so I can focus on making things. €28,00 per month
Smugmug (aff) Archive My long-term photo archive where images are named, dated, and organized into structured folders. Many photos are available for licensing. $110 per year
Backblaze B2 (aff) Storage Cloud storage for large media archives and backups. The cost scales with usage as my archive grows. ~€70 per month
Lightroom Classic CC Photography My primary photo editing and catalog management software. Still the best workflow I know for managing large photo libraries. €9,99 per month
Obsidian Writing & Knowledge Where all my writing and thinking happens. Notes, essays, research, and projects live together in a plain-text knowledge system. Free
Final Cut Pro Video My video editing software. Intuitive enough for quick edits while powerful enough to grow into more advanced workflows. €349,99 one time purchase

Some of these links pay me a small commission for your purchase that keep this website going at no additional cost for you.

Contact

You can use the form below to send me an email. I usually have a reply ready within a day or so.

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De Lens
Chamber of commerce: 64135276
Heliumweg 15, 1.01
3812 RD
Amersfoort
The Netherlands

Now

I've recently become unemployed, and it's fine. I enjoy it, actually. It took a month-long trip to Mexico to work process it but I think I'm good now. Going for runs and calisthenics workouts multiple times a week is what keeps me there.

I am still writing my monthly newsletter, Dialogue, and "photography, exploration and other things" has become an ever better description over time. The weekly newsletter, Closer, has come to an end after I declared the idea fleshed out after a period of 25 weeks.

I am working on more toolkits, alongside Packless, although progress is rather slow on those. It requires a lot of thinking to get 'right' and I find myself not always in the headspace required to do such work. We keep going though.

I'm in the process of completely revamping my website and, hopefully, turning it into a forever-home for all my work. The goal remains to find the level of freedom that allows unlimited exploration, creation, and digestion at a sustainable level. My newly developed 'domains' approach, is how I bring structure in the process toward that goal. I'm developing a more general thesis on the motivations underlaying the work as well.

I still live in Amersfoort, NL, but part of me feels less at home here than I used to. 

Experiences

Exhibitions

2020

The Silence Around @ Public Library Amersfoort

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