Work is done! Portraits of labourers after a day working on a platform in a chimney of a power plant. For Hadek in Czech Republic.
"5x DOC PREVIEW"
A short mix of 5 documentaries I have been working on the last 2 years (03.30 min).
1) "Hoger dan de toppen en dieper dan de wortels" A short film featuring a 65 year old Dutch artist from The Hague. A man who lives a very intensive life. The combination of the type of art he creates and his extrovert character makes him quite a special, if not to say controversial figure. In this documentary his son tries to analyze his relationship with his father.
2) “A film about Menno” Menno is a Dutch former air-brush artist who moved to Spain some 6 years ago. He lives a rather isolated life, without hardly any money, being the caretaker of a farm surrounded by raptors, horses, two dogs and some chickens.
3) “A short film about Frank” is a portrait of Frank and his way of life. Frank is a former sportsman struggling to survive with his disease. Accompanied by the beautiful song “This is the thing” performed by the band Fink, this short film has resulted in an intimate piece of work.
4) “Geen sympathiek figuur” For a period of six months I followed my parents with my camera. After a marriage of 52 years, this last part of their life together shows the thin border between love and frustration. The film features a relationship that is rudely disturbed by Alzheimer's disease. As a former vicar, my father had always been a good public performer and had an important role to play in his community. One of his responsibilities was visiting and consulting the physically and mentally ill. During this last period of his life, he found himself on the other side of the line, when Alzheimer's made him a dependent man. My mother struggled to deal with this change of roles and character, requiring a lot of patience and care from her. The film shows an emotional balance between the weight this disease put on their lives and a certain amount of humor that remained to the very end.
5) “Oma Nel” A short film about 92 year old Oma Nel. Her whole life she has lived in the same house, where she still lives independently, with a little support. Every day people visit her for a coffee, being a very positive and active person, though she's had to face harsh times during her long and eventful life.
'OUR GRID / GROWING BETWEEN THE LINES'
In opdracht van het Stadsarchief van de gemeente Amsterdam maak ik een fotodocumentaire over de explosief groeiende groep jongeren op het Amsterdamse IJburg. De onzekere leeftijdsfase van deze groep afgezet tegen de gestructureerde en ordentelijke achtergrond van strakke lijnen, staat als thema centraal in deze serie. (In progress)
BERLIN
Holocaust monument Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie Friedrichstrasse Berlin
DOCUMENTARY PIET PEERE
For months I’m working on a film documentary about the flemish painter and sculptor Piet Peere. This film shows his passionate way of working and the incredible amount of works he has made. (.....still in progress)
DOCUMENTAIRE FOTO-OPDRACHTEN 2015 TOEGEKEND
Wijnande Deroo, Marc Faasse en Jaap van den Beukel
In april riepen het Stadsarchief en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst op tot het indienen van voorstellen voor de jaarlijkse Documentaire Foto-Opdrachten. Er kwamen 91 plannen binnen die vervolgens aan de ‘commissie documentaire foto-opdrachten’ werden voorgelegd. De commissieleden (Gustaaf Peek (AFK), Thijs Wolzak (fotograaf ), Ineke Teijmant (stadssociologe UvA), Anneke van Veen (Stadsarchief) en Ellen Grabowsky (Stadsarchief) ) vonden elf ideeën verrassend en interessant genoeg om de fotografen om een nadere toelichting te vragen. Drie van die plannen werden uiteindelijk gehonoreerd met een opdracht:
Wijanda Deroo, Nieuwe hotels in bestaande gebouwen
Marc Faasse, Toeristen in Amsterdam
Jaap van den Beukel, Our Grid
"HOGER DAN DE TOPPEN EN DIEPER DAN DE WORTELS"
Deze documentaire gaat over een Haagsche kunstenaar die de afgelopen twaalf jaar lijdt aan het Tourette syndroom. Hij is uniek, intens, dominant , sterke mening, een hoop boosheid en tegelijkertijd een emotioneel mens. Achter zijn Tourette schuilt een zeer gevoelig, creatief en getalenteerd man. In deze film gaat zijn zoon op zoek gaan naar de man achter de Tourette, de man die zijn vader zijn vader maakt.
Op het FIN! FESTIVAL 2015 op 8 Juli is de eerste en enige sneak preview te zien van deze documentaire in de maak.
WIJZER MAGAZINE RABOBANK / MPG.TODAY
Schiphol activity for KLM Wolkenridder magazine
DOCUMENTARY PIET PEERE
The making off!.... docu about the flemish artist Piet Peere.
WIRED MAGAZINE / Portrait of Gerben Stouten
A FILM ABOUT GRANDMA NEL
A movie about 91 years old grandma Nel. her whole life she has lived at the same place. with some help she is still able to live her life. in her own house. Everyday people are visiting her for a coffee and a few times a week she prepares a hot meal for her son at lunch time. Oma Nel is quite a positive person, Although she had a some really difficult times in her personal life, grandma nel is quite a positive person.
PROJECT "ALSOCIETY"
"AlSociety" is a series of portraits I am working on now. All portraits are of people who can't participate completely in ordinary society. They are currently out of a job because of temporary mental and physical issues. Each has their own room or apartment in the same building. Under supervision and with guidance, they try to make a living and form a small, peculiar community.
Their faces show signs of their individual pasts. Their personal stories are often amazing and sometimes even hard to believe. But in any case, circumstance has forced them into dependency and now they are accompanied by an institute that helps them on their unique walks of life.
Project "City-me" Dublin / ALISTAN MUNROE
A portrait of Alistan Munroe in Francis street Dublin. Alistan was passing by and I asked him to pose for a little while. I liked the way he looked, his creme colored shirt, which looked quite similar to the background. The soft orange chair worked as a dissonant. The combination of graffiti, the sculpture of Maria and the crucifix in the background made this place feel a bit surrealistic. Alistan is a necktie designer, a nice contrast compared to his casual appearance.
PROJECT "CITY-ME" DUBLIN
While I was doing my 'City-me' project in Dublin I saw these 'lonely flowers' and nearly everything was red; the bricks, the flowers and the traffic sign. Suddenly this woman, wearing a green dress was passing by. The location is Bow street near Smithfield market.
PROJECT "CITY-ME" BERLIN / BRUSSELS
The City-me project shows still, industrial city perspectives where the individual merges into the graphic background. The work is a mixture of reportage and ‘semi’ staged photography. The somewhat surreal surroundings are just as important as the individuals themselves. Many of the images have been taken just outside busy town centers in quiet, often somewhat sober, suburbs. The people in the photos are unknown passers-by who are walking, unknowingly, through the created “street decor” of the photographer. A carefully structured decor sometimes illuminated, when needed, by a flashlight, stuck to a lamp post with tape. There is no traffic in sight; adverts or other signs where avoided or integrated into the image. The streets seem desolate, but that is just appearance. In reality traffic is rushing by, requiring lots of patience in order to isolate just one person. Sometimes there is no one in sight and I was forced to stage some of the shots by asking some lonely passers-by to pose.
A friend who moved 6 years ago to Spain and lives his life rather isolated, taking care of a farm surrounded by eagles, horses, 2 dogs and some chickens.
Music: TJO ( Tara Jane Oneil ) 'Drowning'
PORTRAITS FOR DUTCHICT
A portrait of Joost van Hest, boardmember of Dutchict
CAMPAIGN LUXOR THEATRE
For the new season we had to make 5 pictures of various people on their way to the Luxor theatre in Rotterdam.
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