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  1. The worn out city centre

    January 17, 2025
    Barcelona is a renowned brand, tourists massively have been flooding the city centre during the last decade.  The last couple of times when I was in town I noticed a remarkable change. There was no jolly atmosphere, no cheering tourists having a good time and what have you. However there…

  2. Large format photography

    November 21, 2024
    A photograph is an immortalised split second where the energy of the photographer and his surroundings have come together.  If we’d take this rather extensive statement as a starting point we find an explanation why a portrait  taken with a large format camera is different from a portrait with a…

  3. El encierro

    August 28, 2023
    I had never been at an “encierro”. Patiently we waited for the bulls to run by. After that we walked towards “la plaza” and I had a look inside. Suddenly the gates closed and a surge of energy went through the people. I panicked because involuntarily I found myself among…

  4. A parallel society in rural Spain

    August 3, 2023
    La Carrera Vicente Martín is an annual running race for young and old in La Zarza de Pumareda La Zarza is a village in western Spain 12 km from the Portuguese border in the province of Salamanca. It is located in the Unesco-protected natural park Las Arribes del Duero. It…

  5. 10 years the book

    March 6, 2023
    The book Currently I am running a crowdfunding campaign for 10 years, a book about the Barcelona based floral design brand Rita Flowers. It is a photography book with a selection of the photographs that I’ve made for Rita Flowers since 2013 when Marga created the brand. In this blog…

  6. Barcelona June 2020

    June 9, 2020
    Last week I spent a day in the center of Barcelona after the government had lifted the lockdown.  A unique opportunity to experience the city without tourists. Until July 2020 we will have Barcelona to ourselves We wandered through El Barrio Gótico and El Born and little by little our…

  7. The process of the City Lights project

    January 30, 2020
    Recently Ritaflowers launched a new product line: City Lights. During the autumn of 2019 I photographed and filmed the publicity campaign We set out as a project to research how flowers can visually improve life in the city of Barcelona, and how flowers can improve one’s life in general. Additionally,…

  8. 24 hours

    September 14, 2019
    One of the perks of being a documentary photographer is that one can tell the story of one’s personal life in photographs I was the team manager of ultra-cyclist Jacques Helderop for his 24 hours race, the 24h Gran Fondo on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.  The task of the team…

  9. Stunning photos

    March 17, 2019
    Enter “stunning photography” in Google and you´ll find colourful images of spectacular wide angle landscapes, portraits of mostly young people with flawless skins and other photos with striking colours In my opinion the value of these stunning pictures is overrated. I dare say that quite a number of them show…

  10. 235 large format 1950ies color negatives

    December 11, 2018
    In my possession is a collection of 235 large format color negatives. The images are portraits of common people, taken in a studio setting. We see children, couples, families, dogs and photos of single people. The photographer is, the then highly recommended, Foto Americain at the Wagenstraat in The Hague…

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