As a documentary photographer Loek Buter is interested in telling stories about the influence of landscapes on individuals and their communities. His projects are social landscape stories with a strong focus the relation between people and nature. Living in an old farmhouse north of Amsterdam in The Netherlands with his wife and three daughters he is looking for the beauty in everyday life in the landscape surrounding him. His work has been published internationally by National Geographic Magazine, Stern Magazine (DE), GEO Magazine (DE), Outside Magazine (USA), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (SW), China Newsweek, and Dutch national newspapers De Volkskrant, NRC, Het Parool and Trouw. At the Lens Culture Portrait Awards 2022 his series 'A bear in the Lowlands' ended up in the jurors’ special selection.
