What to Expect
Before anything else, I’d love to meet for a coffee - my treat, unhurried, in a public place.
We talk. About what you’re hoping to walk away with, what excites you, what makes you nervous. We figure out together what this could look like for you.
Bring whoever makes you feel most comfortable - your best friend, your partner, or come alone.
My wife Nicole will be there too; she is part of how I work. Warm, genuinely invested in how you feel from the moment you walk in.
How I Work
I don’t pose my clients. I create conditions - light, space, a conversation, enough ease that the performance falls away. And then I observe.
The instructions I give are usually small. Almost mundane. Play with your hair. Move a little. Look over there. Something so simple it doesn’t trigger self-consciousness. While you’re thinking about the instruction, you stop thinking about the camera. And that is the moment I’m waiting for.
The Story Behind the Camera
I grew up in the Netherlands. In Dutch culture the body was simply part of life - in art, on beaches, in the matter-of-fact way adults talked about it. Not hidden. Not shameful. Just present. Natural. Unremarkable in the best possible sense.
That shaped how I see beauty - not as something constructed or performed, not something to measure or judge, but something that simply exists, on its own terms, complete. The female form has always struck me that way. Something to be witnessed. Worthy of awe.
By training I am a creature of two worlds, 25 years in IT, and a full 2 year conservatory program in film. Technology gives me precision. Film taught me that the most important thing in any frame is the person in it.