Journal

Notes on looking

Short pieces on the craft: what I see happening where camera and machine meet. Pieces appear here first or land here after LinkedIn; the archive stays.

June 2026 · Exhibition

What a newspaper does to an AI image

For (t)HERE I printed Zondagsrust as a newspaper,paper that creases, yellows, gets thrown away. An image made by a machine, handed back to the most disposable medium we have.

June 2026 · Process

Curator, not creator

The Toeven landscapes were made with AI and printed on Japanese paper. Working in a tradition of leaving out, selection becomes more important than generation.

May 2026 · Process

The photographs I didn't dare to open

Matsu and Taipei, 2023. A week of nightly walks in a period when sleep wouldn't come,photographs I left untouched for years.

May 2026 · Exhibition

From observation to constructed dream

Twenty years of cinematography, ten years of photography, one year of AI. (t)HERE, my first solo exhibition, holds all three.

March 2026 · Documentary

Two generations, quietly stuck

Ilya can't move out; Margot can't move on. I filmed them one on one, as a one-person crew,sometimes solo by design works best.

January 2026 · Photography

An unlimited backstage pass

An appraiser's treasure hunt, a yoga school's calm. However different the energy, the job is the same: making sure everyone is at ease.

January 2026 · Documentary

Stories from around the corner

For Ester Gould's Tortelduifjes I followed Dennis, a pet-shop owner falling in love. The stories closest to home are the dearest to me.

December 2025 · Reflection

When reality turns to poetry

The year I discovered generative AI also taught me to value ordinary looking more. Imagination doesn't live in the tool; it lives in the gaze.

December 2025 · AI

A bigger revolution than film itself

On the front page of de Volkskrant: the fear that AI replaces artists, and the case for the radical liberation of the imagination.

November 2025 · Photography

Schuldig, ten years on

With the series rebroadcast, I returned to photograph its protagonists a decade later. The trust we built ten years ago was instantly there again.

October 2025 · AI & Film

"You can't film this"

Talking fish, a woman whose hair is on fire, a palace inside a melon. Shaping the imaginative layer of Mohammed & Paul with camera and AI.

December 2024 · Photography

The magic of still photography

Before anyone clicks on a moving image, a still has to catch the eye. On my debut purely as a set photographer.

October 2024 · Photography

Twenty-two hours through Toulouse

A hired metro station, a real metro full of passengers, and a rapper with endless patience. The photography for Orelsan's six-times-gold album.