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Mitchel Lensink

Systemic thinker, photographer, writer.
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2025 Recent posts
✦ April

Subscribe to my new weekly newsletter: Closer →

Closer is a weekly newsletter where I take one of my photos, ask AI to describe it, then see what kind of image it can generate from its own description—an ongoing experiment in the capabilities of AI, and what that means for humans.
2025 Recent posts
✦ March

A weekend in Antwerp →

Surely a city with many flaws, but none that I personally witnessed and/or impacted me during this trip. This city treated me well.
2025 Recent posts
✦ March

How to pack light for a weekend →

Packing for a weekend trip? Less is more. In just two days, you won’t need half the things you think you do. This guide breaks down how to travel light, choose the right bag, and pack only the essentials—so you can move freely and focus on the experience, not your luggage.
2025 Recent posts
✦ March

Minimalist travel made easy: how I overcame overpacking and found freedom →

I ditched overpacking for minimalist travel. Discover how I learned to pack light and travel freely, and find the tips that helped me simplify my journeys.
2025 Recent posts
✦ February

Could a simple tap help ease anxiety? This app idea says yes →

I haven't made an app. I'm pitching the idea of an app. One that doesn't exist currently (to my knowledge) but could exist. Using the iPhone's Back Tap functionality to alleviate and 'track' anxiety
2025 Recent posts
✦ February

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?
2025 Recent posts
✦ February

Huisdierfotografie →

Vang de ziel van je huisdier (met een persoonlijke twist). Ze vormen een klein deel van ons leven, maar voor hen zijn wij alles. Dat is het vastleggen waard.
2025 Recent posts
✦ February

Image Licensing →

Image licensing made quick, simple and affordable. Straight from my extensive personal archive.
2025 Recent posts
✦ February

And the camera was there... 2025 →

A project started in 2021, continues in 2025.
2025 Recent posts
✦ January

2024 →

My best work and most memorable moments from 2024.
2024 Recent posts
✦ December

I'm photographing to remember →

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 →

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 →

Life was much simpler back then.
2024 Recent posts
✦ October

Conversion and parallels →

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 →

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! →

"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."
2024 Recent posts
✦ July

Starting a new photo project →

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.
2024 Recent posts
✦ June

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.