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Short Post This Time! Are you busy with Media Projects & Publications? Also Fond of the Look and Feel of Analog, Black & White Images? Either Monochrome, Sepia of Colorised? I recently Updated my Vintage Portfolio on Alamy Images ….. A Collection, dating back to 1979, scanned HighRes and Edited with the Quality you need […]

On Apple Books, part of the Apple iTunes Store, I offer Five different E-Books for download for iPad, iPhone, MacBook and various other, Apple Devices. If you’re a Photography Enthousiast, fond of Documentary, Visual Stories, perhaps these Titles are Specially Waiting for You? A Visual Autobiography. A Collection of Images showing a Search for Identity […]

Using protected images without permission, without payment of royalties or even giving credit to the creator. In the European Union you can do that, provided you do so via embedding. Creators and sellers of images refuse to accept this legal loophole. They are not dinosaurs failing to embrace progress: this is where legislation is lagging […]

Ken je dat? Ontdek je het gebruik van een van jouw, professioneel gemaakte foto’s op de website van een commercieel bouwbedrijf, en je ziet meteen dat die publicatie niet klopt. Dus stuur je een verzoek om het beeld alsnog te betalen. Krijg je een mail retour, waarin nogal dreigend wordt gesteld, dat de inbreuk plegende […]

As of recent years an increasing amount of political, economical and military mayhem is going on, started with occupation by the Russians of Crimea and Eastern Parts of Ukraine. Since the election and inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States,  things are speeding up. War in Israel & Gaza, former Filipino President […]

Recent years have seen a huge decline in Editorial & Documentary Photography made by Independent Photo Journalists and Visual Story Tellers. Especially revenues for producing visual storytellers declined hugely. Both Market Conditions & Individual Circumstances are Responsible, including Main Stream Media, who nearly totally stopped publishing Stories that Matter Most. It’s Mayhem all over the […]

Januari 2025. An issue of “New Perspectives” from Image Rights highlights work I’ve made over the past ten years of so. What I favour very much, is the “External Perspective” on my work. As in: someone else describing it and the impact it (may) have on people who are confronted with my images. Since Images […]

Today, January 7, 2025, a Press Release stumbled into my inbox, which gave me “a Bit of a DeJaVu”. In 2018 a couple of merges in the Duch Stock- & PressPhoto Market in were finalised, leaving PhotoJournalists & Contributing Photographers in many cases with rapidly declining  sales and revenues. Monopolies of the merged or taken […]

Somewhat thirty (30) years or three (3) decades ago, I was asked to produce a couple of portraits of Mr. Frank Houben, then Queens Commissioner of the Dutch Province Noord-Brabant. Recently I was scanning through my analog archive of negatives, made during the 1990’s, when I was still an amateur photographer. With just a small, […]

An early morning in 2020, 7:15 am, a residential area in a medium-sized, Dutch city. Assignment for Aedes Magazine via Curve Mags & More … Joining the early breakfast of Jessie Bekkers and her family, director of a local housing association. Series of Articles, in which these Managers are portrayed in their personal environment during […]

Snap Mobile Photo, a collection of Smartphone Photo’s AGE FotoStock used to licence towards professional image users & customers, was sadly lost after AGE’s closure earlier 2024. Now Imago Images gave me an opportunity to rebuild my collection of Mobile Photo’s. and, as of yesterday, the first 425+ Snap Mobile Photo’s are online available for […]

Sometimes I find my Images after some years back in worthwhile publications, and this one deserves “some attention”. One of my long lasting projects, as a photographer and photojournalist is: “Poverty”. And occasionally my work ends up on the Covers of Books on just that subject. This one, for example. The Book: “Armzalig”, by: Wieke […]

Ever wondered why I find Berlin, Germany so interesting as a Travel Destination? Well, actually, for a whole number of reasons! First of all: it’s the People of Berlin! They are friendly, correct, peaceful, take care of each other, are easy to approach, value the: “Human Approach” above all and generally take things the easy […]

Eindhovens Dagblad, 15 augustus 2024. Het Fotolaboratorium: Analog Space op Strijp-S in Eindhoven doet Goede Zaken dankzij de revival van Analoge Fotografie. Een van die oude technieken in de fotografie die de moeite waard zijn om opnieuw op te leven. Mooie gelegenheid om de charme van analoog weer eens te proeven en een bevestiging dat […]