As a social scientist I was turned into a photographer by Caribbean migrants (mainly from Curaçao), a group where I was doing research for the Dutch Ministery of Justice. Inspired by their exuberance and touched by their conditions of life, I traded statistics for the camera and made a photo book about their lives in the Netherlands and the backgrounds from which they had come. This book was published with the title "Speransa" and resulted in years of exhibitions, both in The Netherlands and in the Caribbean. Photography has been my life ever since.

Working on the Speransa project brought me to the tiny Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius AKA Statia. I instantly fell in love with the people I met there and Statia has been a major part of my life ever since. I became part of the island's life, playing music in the traditional string band and singing with a group of women for funerals. In 2016 Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer published my big & beautiful photo book titled "Statia Song". In 2021 a series of photographs will fill the Amsterdam WM Gallery.

Meanwhile landscape photography has become the other half of my photography praxis and in my recent work I'm exploring the illusive nature of visual certainty by taking images from speeding trains and buses, images in which moment and movement collide to express the unsteadiness of our existence and to question the exactitude of our perception. 

The (still unfinished) series "Berlin by Bahn" is my latest project, in which various aspects of previous work come together.

I've worked for various magazines. My documentary work as well as my landscapes were widely exhibited in the Netherlands, in the Caribbean and in New York.

In 2013 I studied with Magnum photographers David Alan Harvey in New York and Nikos Economopoulos in Athens (Greece).