HvdK Ergens rond de eeuwwisseling hadden mijn toenmalige zakenpartner en ik wilde plannen met e-books. Zij was wat enthousiaster dan ik. Dat kwam niet omdat ik geen glorieuze toekomst zag voor e-books, maar omdat ik al voorloper was sinds 1994 op het vlak van digitale projecten die met literatuur te maken hadden. Mijn grootste bezwaar was … Read more
De vrouw die ik om twee uur ‘s middags zou fotograferen, noemde zich burlesque performer. Als studiofotograaf ontkom ik er niet aan om te rubriceren en te generaliseren. Wie in het grote, donkere bos zijn roofdieren niet kent, wordt onherroepelijk opgegeten. Burlesque performers in het amateurcircuit zijn meestal vrouwen die zich ‘niet gezien’ voelen en … Read more
Wat wel leerzaam was aan het jaartje redactie voor het tijdschrift OpNieuw, is dat ik mij weer moest inwerken op een pagina-opmaaksysteem. Het laatste programma waar ik mee gewerkt had was Ventura Publisher en daarbij had ik ook nog eens de hulp van mijn toenmalige eindredacteur. Nu stond ik er goeddeels alleen voor, al had … Read more
Ages ago, it seems, I was sent to New York to interview and photograph Art Kane and Ralph Gibson for a magazine called Zero. I really felt on top of things. It was the first time I boarded an airplane. I went to Art Kane first and his British assistant tried to shoe me away, … Read more
It really is a pleasure to have most of your negatives digitized. Well, certainly not all of them, but I keep finding series that I have long forgotten. This was an assignment for a Dutch weekly, and it is one of the very few series that I actually planned with the help of someone who … Read more
Creating this (partially) new website is also a stroll through my archives and I dug up some of my oldest photographs and I put them in perspective on a page called Early Photographs. I am doing this against my old rule that no photograph should ever need text to accompany it. In this case, I … Read more
I was quite ignorant then, because I thought I would cover most of what I was looking for in about five years. It became a project with no end in sight. Social media came and the world changed. My first profile on Facebook was deleted. I wasn’t banned for a week or longer. My whole … Read more
1999 and 2000 for me were the last years of analogue photography. I believe I switched to a Nikon D1 by the end of 2000. I was recovering from major surgery at the time, so it was not a period of my life I wish to remember in detail. Not being able to walk properly … Read more
I brought some lighting equipment and a backdrop to the UNCENSORED exhibit at NDSM-fuse and did some photo shoots with an audience, which was fun. I will post a video in the news section, once the material has been edited. Drag Queen Starlet A.J. Heartstone was the first to stand in front my camera. It … Read more
The exhibit at NDSM-Fuse came in two parts. The first part was a prequel during the Pride and featured a selection of works of the GENDER! Series. The show ended yesterday (August 30th, 2020) and I feel tired now, but it was one of the most interesting exhibits I ever had, since there was so … Read more