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FotoJournalistiek ligt overal ter wereld onder vuur. Budgetten voor fotografie in het algemeen, en voor fotoreportages en documentair werk in het bijzonder, dalen al jaren. Voor zover zij al aanwezig zijn. Tegelijkertijd zijn er groepen fotojournalisten, die toch nog hun werk willen doen en de waakhondfunctie van de journalistiek serieus blijven nemen. Om hun werk […]

Between March 17 & 21, 2022 I drove a fully loaded bus (sponsored by Careflex Zorggroep) with relief goods, food, medical supplies, personal care products and more via Berlin, Germany, towards the East of Poland. I felt I needed to do something concrete myself, towards people who became unwillingly victims of war. Stichting Geef een […]

Sometimes I find Photo’s, Images & Pictures of (former) members of family that have been degraded over the years and decades. Dust, Scratches, Color Degrading, UV-Influence, and other issues that literally fade images away. In Some cases and situations these imaged can be recovered. Like this example: a portrait of Dave Plu’s Mother, who deceased […]

Between December 2013 and early 2016 I worked on a major project regarding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, mainly caused by the Syrian Civil War, which forced thousands of civilians to leave their homes  and families. People ended up struggling for safety, security, food, shelter and medical attention, apart from  border crossing with officials sending […]

In 2018 schreef ik een Reader over Beeldbank- & StockFotografie (PDF) voor cursisten die bij mij een workshop kwamen volgen over dat onderwerp. Een hele berg informatie over soorten beeldbanken, licenties, contractvormen, metadata en archiefbeheer. Maar ook over (Captions & Keywords) en over Digitale Workflow in jouw studio. Eigenlijk een weerspiegeling van bijna 15 jaar […]

Found a huge and very important project on The Internet today, called: “The Rescued Film Project”! The Rescued Film Project, founded by Levi Bettweiser, is an archive of images that were captured on film between the 1930s and early 2000s. Meanwhile he’s giving a lemon on how to develop old, analog films, waiting to be […]

Good caption and keywording of images is essential when selling images through any online marketplace. If you do this right, you will have an advantage over competitors and your images will, on average, sell better. However, if you don’t know how to do this in a professional matter, you will establish a negative reputation and […]

It’s been quite a thing in social media discussions lately: the emission of CO2 and greenhouse gases. Climate change is slowly becoming very noticeable due to rising temperatures, melting ice caps and extreme weather. Yet we all use more and more electricity. Which has to be made somewhere. That is why there are power stations […]

Not everyone realizes that there are more Stock Photography Agencies & Websites than ShutterStock, iStock, Adobe Stock & Dreamtime with usually cheap, poor to mediocre quality. There is better to get. Barcelona, Catalonia based  AGE FotoStock is one of them. Started in about 1973, one of the older among the premium stock photography companies. AGE […]