Photographer // Interviewer // Multi-media Creative
DJ Sluterdijk x Em Revill 2024
Local music talent and recipient of the Slim Radio DJ competition 2023 DJ Sluterdijk reached out to me to direct and shoot her artist branding and event imagery. We shot her portraits at Sloterdijk station in Amsterdam and put together an array which could be used to send to promoters, make promotional posters and other media. We wanted the shoot to clearly show her identity as a sex-positive, feminist DJ carving a space out for herself in the local scene.
Cyber Atelier Issue 5 - Megaphone Cowboy - Promo Editorial Shoot
In order to promote Issue 5 of Cyber Atelier, I devised a concept that was a queer and colourful re-writing of old spaghetti western movies. The concept was to subvert the hypermasculinity of this genre and swing it into a hyper feminine, camp direction. I directed the shoot, which focused on making the promo video mostly, but we had time on the shoot to take some stills too.
Cyber Atelier Issue 5 - Cover & Attention-themed editorial
In collaboration with the talented fashion designer MarlienWEAR, modelled by Kim Schreurs, I formulated a concept which incorporated her bold, eye-catching designs with the theme of attention - which felt like a natural fit. I wanted this shoot to present a dichotomy between the colourful clothing and the mundane setting, and thus bringing attention to less interrogated social codes of dress and how we all adorn ourselves in our daily lives - posing the question, why do we dress a certain way in daily contexts when joyous expression is also an option? I chose to situate these editorials in a place which suggests monotony and the everyday - public transport, during morning rush hour, providing a contrast between sartorial and setting when these vestments of bold tulle are presented in adjacency to overcast weather and other citizens of Amsterdam, presumably en route to their 9-to-5. These sites felt like liminal spaces where the common person is merely passing in the space between their home and their place of work, public transport is never a destination, but a means of going elsewhere.
Additionally, I wrote a piece here which included my musings on the theme of attention in a modern, western, capitalist context.
Cyber Atelier Issue 4 - A Night Out and the Day After
Expanding on the magazine's usual repeat recipe feature, I conceptialised and photographed an editorial shoot based on the narrative of a partygoers night out and the day after told through the food that they would consume throughout the course of their festivities, including joke recipes, as well as a recipe that I developed for this issue.
Eline Brau - #ChooseYourCharacter - Amsterdam Fashion Institute Graduation Project
For this shoot I collaborated with Eline to shoot the concept which was the final assignment in her Bachelor studies at AMFI. This shoot was centered around youth subcultures which one would see at various festivals and dance scenes. Specifically this shoot was inspired by the gamification of youth styles as seen on Tiktok and other social media sites. The project is a mock-up for a Vinted, purely for educational purposes, no copyright infringement intended.
Reveuse Vintage - Wish You Were Here
To conclude my internship at Reveuse Vintage, I was tasked with coming up with a final project editorial shoot.
Drawing inspiration for my own personal love for collecting vintage postcards, I wanted to create something that embodied the escapism and wanderlust that we craved during the pandemic, but offered a far less risky alternative to crossing borders. From this, Wish You Were Here was born, a collection of 4 editorial shoots sprinkled with jet set glamour and a dose of nostalgia.
For this project I shot, styled, and edited all aspects.
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