2024 Recent posts
✦ December
I'm photographing to remember
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A peek through my archive allows me to remember what a year it has been, again. It's easy to forget the details when you don't document them. Thankfully I do. This is my 2024 in review, using the b-side images that I never shared before.
2024 Recent posts
✦ December
When life gets ahead of you
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It hasn’t been easy, but I refuse to complain. Please don’t take my writing as such. I’m just observing, recording, venting—trying to make sense of it all. And the result, so far? I'm bursting with energy, sometimes.
2024 Recent posts
✦ November
Ten years of photography and counting
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Life was much simpler back then.
2024 Recent posts
✦ October
Conversion and parallels
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With the power of sheer will I carry myself to the streets, into the early-fall sun that still has surprising strength if it manages to find you. 'No ambitious workout-like plans today,' I tell myself.
2024 Recent posts
✦ September
It's full of life, I promise
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I am here to prove to people you don't need exciting city centers to make nice images, but the silence on these streets makes me almost second-guess myself. Maybe this place is actually boring...?
2024 Recent posts
✦ August
Hey, you're that guy!
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"A newspaper that partly sticks out of a mailbox, a cat in the sun in someone's front garden or a lushly overgrown alley in the city. It is a selection of the photos that Mitchel Lensink (32) has taken in Amersfoort in recent years. His mission: photographing all the streets of the city."
Starting a new photo project
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I have started a new photo project and each time I've told people so far, they've looked at me questioningly. I get that, but I don't think I'm crazy. Hear me out.
Inside the beautifully chaotic mind of ReinCarnatie
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'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.
2024 Recent posts
✦ April
Documenting a writing camp and announcing the giveaway winner
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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.
2024 Recent posts
✦ April
Covering
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Walking every street of my hometown, Amersfoort, while photographing every nook and cranny. Documenting the things I see along the way.
2024 Recent posts
✦ March
Photo essay: Bleached Renaissance (and my first-ever print giveaway!)
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A photo essay, two videos and a fine art print giveaway. These are not three separate newsletters.
2024 Recent posts
✦ February
It's all out there, right now
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A good beach has white sand, they tell you. Preferably as finely grained as possible. Like a powder that's sprinkled on the edges of the land. The frosting on the cake, if you will.
2024 Recent posts
✦ January
Thailand's culture of kindness saved us
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Even after years of travel experience, we still had to appeal to the world-famous kindness of the Thai people to be saved from, what could be, a scary situation.
2024 Recent posts
✦ January
2023
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My best work and most memorable moments from 2023.
2023 Recent posts
✦ December
Alone in Las Vegas (and 2023 in review)
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This is what the USA looks like from the eyes of a 31-year old photographer who's never visited the country before.
2023 Recent posts
✦ November
How I learned to embrace my quirks
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When I turned sixteen, instead of getting my driver's license for a scooter (which was still as simple as taking a 1-hour theoretical test and paying 40 euros at the door), I bought my first computer for about 500 euros. It almost bankrupted me.
2023 Recent posts
✦ October
Please take ownership of your work. Nobody else will
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It's been about four weeks now. Two hours per day, on average. Loading in the image previews, looking at the contents of the images, and titling everything based on the location they are shot in or the people pictured. Sometimes both. It's an endless stream.
2023 Recent posts
✦ October
This newsletter was part of a museum exhibition, here's how
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Something special has happened. Let me take you along on the main events from September 2023. The first is this newsletter going physical, and the second is the addition of a new product category in my store.
