1975 born in Eindhoven NL / lives and works in Breda NL. I graduated in 1998 from the academy of visual arts St.Joost in Breda NL. After several years of doing commissions and initiating my own projects. I published the photobook Mimus, for which I collaborated with different virus circusartists from europe. I was invited to teach at various art schools. My photographs are rather an expression of how I interpret personal relationships and bends them to my will. I specifies situations that I encounter and elaborate them in careful photographic compositions. The strength of my photos
lies in the fragility of human transience. Something valuable is always on the verge of disappearing. Just before it perishes, I capture it in an image. My way of working has a ‘performative side’. I build tools to connect with. Inside and outside a frame. I designed commissioned by BredaPhoto festival i.c.m. Nest (family partnership) the stage set for the performance of ‘Islands’ by composer Richard Ayres and the Asko Schönberg ensemble. It brought together music, film, photography, spatial design and performance. For ‘Earth’ I built my DOKAR, a darkroom on wheels. As an ode to photographer M. Coppens.
Introspective and dreamy, these black-and-white photographs capture the delicate moment when the bubble of childhood pops, when fairytales cease to fall under the category of truth.
Komma