La Vita Extra Vierge
Old Marisa ,80 years – Castro, 30th of April 2075 The coastline salutes me as I finally made it to the top of the hill. Although you will never hear me admit it, I must be getting old now. Old... just...
View ArticleWe dream up (Published by Yume Mag)
A few weeks ago I finally found some time to make my way to Tisja Damen in Amsterdam. About time it was...Somewhere in the beginning of this year a common friend told me to check out Tisja’s designs. I...
View ArticleState of Flux (Story for PointSevenMach)
People tend to structure things: Their households, jobs, financial concerns, relationships... all are depending on well defined blueprints. Lifes need to be planned in order to be lived. The concept of...
View ArticleI can be this, I can be that - by Gregory Derkenne
Friday at noon, dark clouds were packing together, as I entered the loft Gregory had fixed for this shoot. I remember there was a lot of turmoil going on because I had so many things to take care of....
View ArticleHabitat - by Gregory Derkenne
Racing heartbeats, price in sight, primal intuition I no longer need to hide. Once civilized and caged, a prisoner of the Hive. Beaten the buzzing mainstream, I finally come alive. Emancipated from...
View ArticleEditorial for C-heads by Eric Marillier
Just a month ago, Eric called me up to do a shoot in Brussels. The city was melting due to a heatwave that was heading over Belgium. I don't know what it was but when I arrived I immediately felt a...
View ArticleGender is Over (for Yume Magazine by Kris Rodammer)
"Men come for Mars, women come from Venus"In literature, this is just one in a million verses that describe a fundamental gender-distincition.Guys love football, Girls love ballet and play with...
View ArticleFacing the storm - by Andrei Runcanu
I must admit,I’ve always been a storm chaser.The addiction for that magnetic pull of electricity,air bursting with oxygen.Suddenly breathing seems so different.I can feel my lungs screaming for...
View ArticlePalm Springs - by Paul Ripke
Palm Springs…I did 3 well-focused attempts to write down my thoughts/feelings about these series... But I had to come to the conclusion that I just don’t have the exact right words to even describe 10%...
View ArticleNo desert disillusion (Exclusively for Treats by Kesler Tran)
Last month, actually when I just arrived back in LA after my Palm Springs adventure, I met up with Kesler Tran. Because we are both living on the other sides of LA, we gathered at a parking lot,...
View ArticleI am Yours (For Treats by Stefan Rappo)
Who am I?A product of evolution, or a predestined creationThe Lead in a bigger story, or just an insignificant pawnA biological package drifting in a chaotic existence or a subject choosing to...
View ArticleLost in colors
Sometimes the world becomes a grey mass,incomprehensibly plain, like the walls are closing in on me.I’m diving without oxigen, slowly sufficating.as if a giant jungle snake outbests me with every...
View ArticleMorning Bliss (Marisa Papen by Damian Karsznia)
Breaking Dawn.As the birds fly off on a morning hunting expedition,I’m slowly being pulled out of my blissful sleep.A hypnosis by the natural elements of this local Thai village fuels my senses.Brings...
View ArticleSexual spirit or spiritual sexuality - by Gregory Derkenne
How can you desire for someone else, if you can't comprehend the need for loving yourself? In my opinion it is impossible without an intimate relationship between spirit and body.Defining yourself...
View ArticleThe Wave - by Michael Chichi
Island Mornings.To wake up here is not a challenge, not a struggle to get out of bed.Effortless I got pulled up, feeling light as a feather.Every sound, every smell goes in crescendo.Sensations swindle...
View ArticleAbout being a 'Playmate'...
So, Today I would like to share some personal thoughts with you.It’s not often I share my opinion, because I believe everyone is entitled to their own.In this case I feel different about that.Not only...
View ArticleThrough the eyes of a child - by Jörg Billwitz
There’s no signs on this road I chose to travel.A path without directions.A path without dead-ends.Many ways to turn, many miles ahead.Over and over new land reveals itself. I touch it and it touches...
View ArticleBa-ha-mas - by Ana Dias
I think it was only 1 week before the actual shoot that Ana wrote me.She was very short and direct but as soon as my eyes spotted ‘Bahamas’ I was sold.I replied within the minute and the same day as...
View Article'For when there are no bananas around'
No need for words this time... Buy it, try it! CLICK HEREIf you do want some words though, I did a little interview for Ilov Magazine (in Dutch, I'm sorry) CLICK HERE
View ArticleWater has memory
Wet skin.It feels like I'm reborn again,New life exists.I remember,We all remember.Where our cells once multiplied,Our bodies recognize. The closest form of embracement,A natural connection. Shot in...
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