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Mitchel Lensink

Systemic thinker, photographer, writer.
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Hi, I’m Mitch
Photographer, writer, and systems thinker exploring how creative work actually gets done.

Most of my ideas start outside. I walk, observe, take photographs, and try to understand the patterns underneath the things I notice. This often turns into essays, projects, and ongoing experiments about creativity, work, and living with intention.

This website is a record of that process. Field notes, finished work, and practical frameworks that explore one simple idea: a creative life emerges from paying attention, choosing deliberately, and consistently finishing what you start.

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How to tell stories online, my way →

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.
Dialogue

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.
Monologue

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.
Monologue

Puerto Escondido →

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

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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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.
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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

Photo essay: Bleached Renaissance (and my first-ever print giveaway!) →

A photo essay, two videos and a fine art print giveaway. These are not three separate newsletters.
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Photo essay: Karpathos in between →

About the duality of a small Greek island that is yet to be discovered by mass tourism.
Dialogue

Winter Allotment →

A small photography project, shot in one afternoon in the waning winter sun. Focussing on the hidden beauties of a communal allotment garden.
Projects

Current work

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Toolkits
Frameworks

Toolkits

Practical frameworks I’m developing to help turn curiosity into finished work. These grow out of experiments in my own creative process.
Covering
Walking Project

Covering

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

Dialogue

My monthly letter about photography, walking, and the creative life. A place where I reflect on what I’m noticing, working on, and trying to figure out.