I picked up a camera at fifteen. I was a skater kid growing up in Goes, in the southwest of the Netherlands, and photography was the thing I turned to when an injury kept me off my board. It stuck around in a way skating didn't.

My twenties were turbulent. I had dreamed of studying at a photo academy in Antwerp, but life had other ideas. ADHD and dysthymia, both undiagnosed and untreated for a long time, had a way of quietly derailing things. Like a lot of people in that situation, I found other ways to cope for a while. I ended up studying traditional woodworking in Amsterdam instead, training as a cabinet maker, and spending years doing physical work with my hands. I don't regret any of it. Understanding how things are built, and what it takes to build them, has shaped how I see the world more than any photography course could have.

Eventually I landed in IT, which sounds like a sharp left turn, and it was. I've spent the better part of fifteen years as a data center engineer: cabling, rack placements, fiber optics, hardware buildouts, the unglamorous physical infrastructure that the digital world runs on. It's hands-on work that most people never think about, which I've always found quietly satisfying. Over time the role grew and I now operate more at a senior or staff engineering level, covering the full infrastructure stack and taking on more project management alongside the technical side. I still love a good cable run. I often describe myself as a cabinet builder lost in IT, and I mean it more as a compliment to both trades than a complaint about either.

What the IT career gave me, unexpectedly, was the world. Projects across Asia and Europe meant years of being dropped into unfamiliar places, finding my footing, and getting to know people I would never otherwise have met. The camera came along every time.

Photography has been running in the background through all of this, through the difficult years, through the woodworking, through the data centers and the travel. Twenty-five years and counting. It has never been a career for me, which has maybe kept it honest. I shoot because I am genuinely curious about people and places, and because a photograph is one of the few things that can make someone stop and actually look.

I live in Singapore now. The work on this site spans a lot of years and a lot of places. The project I care most about right now is The Ones Building Singapore, portrait and documentary work with the foreign workers who build and maintain this city, done on Sundays, one person at a time.

I am open to conversations about work, collaboration, or the project. You can reach me below.