‘Let me take you past the noise’

After following the rational for a long time, I realized that the world of imagination, emotion and aesthetics is where my true passion and strength lies. Therefore, in 2018, I took a leap and left my lawyer’s career to pursue a creative life as a photographer.

I am always searching for beauty. I want to capture, share and celebrate it, as it gives hope and inspires. For me, beauty goes hand in hand with realness. Only when realness – found in a story, emotion or imperfection – filters through, I am touched. It is why I am particularly drawn by ordinary, everyday objects. In things that usually go unnoticed, I find the most beautiful details. Beauty in what is.

My aim is to show the true version [essence] of things. To do so, I like to closely zoom in on my subject and strip out any unnecessary details. This often results in decontextualized and somewhat abstract images, through which I invite you to see things in a new way.

In the end, it is the creative process that I am interested in, which has been the subject of several of my projects. Since leaving my lawyer’s career, I have been discovering how rich life can be if we approach it with curiosity and openness, follow our intuition and embrace every stage of the process that life is. If I do that, inspiration can flow and I’m able to create from within. Life unfolds before me and surprises me with possibilities I hadn’t imagined. 

/ Image by Susanne van Weelden