I began my career as a photographer which fit me like a glove and allowed me to travel around the world creating a wide variety of reportages.
I love hunting for that perfect moment and capturing it just in the nick of time to tell the story.

We represented over a hundred photographers and journalists with whom I sat down to discuss, and review their works and then I’d put together selections that had a special hook that magazines could count on for publishing.

I made the leap into film as the world went digital. My years of experience of looking through a lens helped make the transition easier. For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by music but particularly african drumming and rhythm.

In 2004 I traveled to Africa with a team of friends and family where we worked together documenting specific african rhythms. The ‘Foli’ was one of the films to emerge from this and went viral on YouTube with over 19 million hits and 191,000 likes and has been nominated for several film festivals.

About Me

As a young Dutch boy having grown up on a boat my eyes were skilled in seeing far into the distant horizon. I didn’t know then that I would be making my living based upon the way I see the world.

I began my career as a photographer which fit me like a glove and allowed me to travel around the world creating a wide variety of reportages.
I love hunting for that perfect moment and capturing it just in the nick of time to tell the story.

For over 20 years I was co-founder, art director & photo-editor of TCS, a feature agency that provided international magazines ready to publish stories that included image and text.

We represented over a hundred photographers and journalists with whom I sat down to discuss, and review their works and then I’d put together selections that had a special hook that magazines could count on for publishing.

With my own work I’ve been fortunate enough to be published in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Geo, Condé Nast Traveler, Figaro Magazine, The Independent, National Geographic , Rolling Stone, Elle and Wired and have created 10 books on varying subjects from food and lifestyle to architecture and craftsmanship.

I made the leap into film as the world went digital. My years of experience of looking through a lens helped make the transition easier. For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by music but particularly african drumming and rhythm.

In 2004 I traveled to Africa with a team of friends and family where we worked together documenting specific african rhythms. The ‘Foli’ was one of the films to emerge from this and went viral on YouTube with over 19 million hits and 191,000 likes and has been nominated for several film festivals.

Some recent works include having worked for the Emir of Qatar filming falcon hunting in the Sahara, as well as directing a soon to be released documentary about a young man with a rare disease (Bor) and an on-going project is the ‘High Cuisine’ brand, a culinary tv series …… that was aired on Dutch Television and soon to be released internationally.
I’m looking forward to creating more projects about things that are not only interesting and beautiful but subjects that matter and make a difference.