There are certainly many hair-raising moments in life, but this is not one of them. If anything, I would consider this as a hairplay moment. 

Hairplay

This might be a mix of "hello darkness my old friend" and "stairways to heaven". Two songs I can't stand listening to but keep popping up in my mind every now and then for some unexplainable reason.

Hello Darkness

This is what you get when you use Arsène Lupin, a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise, to cover behind a book cover.

Book Cover

Sometimes strange things just seem to take place right in front of you and before you know it, there is an image that makes you wonder about the story behind it.

Stair Stare

When you feel like taking a picture of an important person in the moment who lives about 2000 km away from you, you can either teleport yourself to that location or simply take a teleportrait.

Teleportrait

I tend to shoot a lot at night when things have calmed down and most people change from their daytime self to their spare-time self. I like to play with the available light that often sets the mood to let it direct the shot I am about to take.

Light

They say that “When one door closes another door opens” and while that is mostly true, although not happening by chance but rather by the fact that a closed door makes us act instead of going on with the status quo, the original quote by Alexander Graham Bell actually reads “When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

Doors

I have recently started a new project called Uglytecture.com. I find it fascinating how one can find the most beautiful buildings right next to something that is somewhat painful to look at. Often those ugly buildings are only seen because they feel disturbing to the eye, rather than appealing and inspiring like the Hotel De Ville. My task is to find whatever beauty there might be in the Uglytecture that can be found in so many places around the world. 

Hotel De Ville

I think it is interesting how the choice of a format influences the language of a picture. Having bought a new camera recently, gave me the opportunity to play around with different aspect ratios and although I was excited about the look of it I quickly understood that it doesn't resonate with my work as well as the square format does. So maybe it is something I can consider for a specific project in the future.

Format

Walking through cities and discovering new places around me, that I haven't paid attention to earlier, is something I love to do. Finding lines, corners, shapes in a city environment gives me a sense of order in an often rather chaotic urban life.

Out Of Line