Summer Pilot Academie van Leiden

This summer I’ll be teaching at the Summer Pilot of the brand new Academie van Leiden. The Summer Pilot offers a multidisciplinary program focussed on a further development of your artistry. The Academie is an initiative of Lyda Bekker and Miriam de Koning. Other teachers are Maurice Braspenning, Roland van Dierendonck, Iede Reckman, Maarten Slof …

Makers 2.02122

I was asked by Dutch photographer and blogger Renzo Candido to contribute to his blog Makers 2.02122: an inspiring serie portraits of passionate creatives. Each creatives he asks the same two questions: ‘What brought you to do what you do now. And what does it bring you?’ It was an honour to participate (be sure …

Humble Arts Foundation New York

Two photos from the series My Tribe have been selected for the online Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors of the American Humble Arts Foundation… … “Is a photography degree essential to ‘making’ it in the art world (and how important is ‘making’ anyway?)?” This time, Humble Arts Foundation specifically asked for work by self-taught …

Is pas d’Espace?

‘Is pas d’ Espace’ is a bilingual title, taken from the book ‘Espèces d’espaces’ (Spaces around) by the French writer Georges Perec. Pas d’espace translates from French as: ‘no space’. By placing ‘is’ before this, the Dutch translation indicates ‘it is real, it is real space.’ Space is a doubt. Space is something that we must …