Bad-boy celebrity, ex-convict, reclusive author? Everyone has a story, and telling those stories keeps me going. Wielding a camera is like having a license to enter worlds I might otherwise never see.
I can be a fly on the wall, listening and looking, but when direction is called for I’m happy to accost strangers, or tell dignitaries to hug. The aim is always to make pictures with with candor and humanity, and sometimes a bit of humor.
Since starting out as a photojournalist with Gamma Press in 1999, It’s been my good fortune to have been rewarded the Johnson & Johnson/ICP traveling fellowship, to have my work exhibited at ICP, Interfilm Berlin, and The Bicycle Film Festival, and to have been recognized in the PDN Photo Annual and The Magenta Foundation’s Compendium of the best Canadian Photographers (Yes, I am Canadian. And Dutch. But mostly American). My approach to image making is continually evolving, but at the end of the day, I like to follow my curiosity, and to collaborate with talented, inspiring, creative people, on either side of the camera.
Clients include:
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Observer
Mother Jones
Report On Business
Correctional Association
Millenium Promise
The Climate Reality Project
Teachers Count
Knoll
Metropolis
Pentagram
Rizzoli
Dwell
The School of Visual Arts
The Outdoor Journal
Bicycling
Soigneur
Rapha
Tour