Een (te) snelle blik op de tentoonstelling Polaroidman van Wilfiried de Jong in Weibard galerie te Rotterdam.

Het dieptepunt van de Zomergasten uitzending op Zondagavond met Tommy Wieringa kwam pas op maandagmorgen, in de vorm van de recensies.

A brief download of my impressions at Les rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, 2026.

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Antwoord op de open brief in HP de Tijd van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer aan K.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam organized an Erwin Olaf exhibition; an inspiring and emotional journey through his carreer as a photographer and activist. Read about my experience and interpretation of the exhibition here.

The NFT gold rush is over. What’s left is a graveyard of abandoned projects… and a handful of artists who might just redefine photography for the years to come. These are artists I’ve been following for years have long wanted to spotlight. With Batsoupyum’s initiative to reinvigorate the NFT space, now feels like the right moment.

Explore my latest photographic study of water and light, inspired by the textures of Pierre Soulages’ Outrenoir and the high-contrast imagery of Lucien Clergue. Available as A3-size at near cost price, the test prints from this study, offer a glimpse into the creative process behind my upcoming project, Memories. Each print is signed and marked as a test edition, making them a unique addition to any art collection. Perfect for lovers of abstract photography, fine art prints, and experimental techniques.

Beauty is not a matter of taste, it’s defined by universal rules. Want to know which ones? Read on and find out.

We are surrounded by noise: political spectacle, constant urgency, endless explanation. It gives the impression that everything demands our attention, when in fact it may be preventing us from seeing what matters most.

For decades, scientists have warned that climate change would destabilize the world. Each new report confirms not only that change is inevitable, but that it is arriving faster and more violently than anticipated. The question is no longer whether our systems will endure, but what will remain when they do not.

In such a moment, what place is left for art? What happens to beauty when survival becomes the primary concern?

Perhaps beauty was never meant to distract or console. Perhaps it exists to reveal something universal—something we once understood intuitively, before it was buried under habit, responsibility, and age.

This essay reflects on collapse, beauty, and truth, and on memory not as history, but as lived experience: the quiet recognition of something that still feels true, even when it can no longer be clearly named.

The object that appears on the surface might very well end up not being the actual subject of the photograph. The trick is to go deeper. The question as a photographer is of course, how. Luc Delahaye and Gerhard Richter give powerful pointers that I will reflect upon further as I work my way into 2026.

Why Golden Future wont be on show during the Salon des Beaux Arts 2025 and what you can expect instead.

The world feels broken — but outrage alone won’t save us. Here’s why we must choose passion, justice, and beauty instead of despair.

Where Romantic painters depicted picturesque pastoral landscapes featuring imagined ruins, as a suggestion of times gone by, today’s large crowd of urbex photographers is not so much looking back at better times gone by, but staring into a bleak yet increasingly plausible future.

Read my reflections on nostalgia in a dying world and discover some interesting things about the phenomenon you probably didn’t know!

I asked Twitter’s Grok 4 to provide an art critique of this interpretation of the Mandalorion, in Jerry Saltz style. Here’s the text it returned.

Street photography is an incredibly rewarding and grateful activity. The physical exercise of walking and sometimes literally chasing an image, the felt excitement, the unexpected encounters with beautiful strangers and fellow human beings that are, as Henri Cartier-Bresson used to put it, consenting victims, it all is rewarding enough. The photograph is just the bonus.

Van Gogh on Steroids: experiencing the Hockney Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

If you mix Klimt, Van Gogh, and Hieronymus Bosch, do you get Kiefer? Of course, there’s more to an artist than the sum of those who may have inspired him, but it was interesting to see reflections of these great masters transpire in some of his works. The applied gold is perhaps the most obvious, together with the patches of reed and straw swirling through a teal sky. I thought the dark blacks were reminiscent of the third part of Bosch’s triptych as well.

Did you know you don’t see colours in the same way the person next to you does? And I’m not merely talking about colour blindness. In this new blog, we’ll be contemplating on what this means for the possibilities of sharing experiences through photography, and how this is different from what I expected when I started out many decades ago.