Magazines
Some of the photos I took in Burkina Faso have been published in the German popular science magazine ‘P.M. Magazin’. The photos, depicting the controversial experiments with genetically modified mosquitoes, have been published in The Guardian, De Volkskrant, De Morgen and El País before. To find out more about the GMO mosquito project, click here.
To take a closer look at the article in P.M. Magazin, click on the photos above.
For Dutch newspaper / magazine Samsam, I met up with Swabir, a 12 year old boy who lives in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. His father is Head of Education at the renowned Fort Jesus, the number one cultural attraction of Kenya’s coastal area. But the fort has seen better days: due to coastal erosion, rising sea levels and erosion caused by rain water (all linked to climate change), the centuries old structure is deteriorating rapidly.
Together with Raphael Igombo and his son Swabir, I visited the fort to have a look at the recently constructed wall that should protect Fort Jesus for the next hundred years. You can read the story in the current edition of Samsam, online on their website or you can click on the image below to enlarge the article. Samsam is a magazine and learning method, which is distributed to and used by primary schools all over The Netherlands.
For this month’s Msafiri, the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways, I created the ‘lead travel story’ about Dakar, Senegal, focusing on where to eat, sleep and stay. Above, you can read how I described my trip to the Senegalese capital (some photos are mine, too). To read the whole issue of Msafiri, you can click here!
If you’d like to read more travel stories, you can click here for my piece on Ethiopia (including Lalibela, Gondar, Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar) or click here for my Uganda travel story (focusing on Kampala, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi).
For the inaugural issue of ‘Ng’aali’, the inflight magazine of the recently launched Uganda Airlines airliner, I created three travel stories about German lion doctor Ludwig Siefert, chimp trekking in Uganda and the Nai Nami Tour experience in Nairobi. You can read the first-mentioned piece above, or check out the whole magazine here, on the Ng’aali website.
What happens when the lid of the container slams shut and our donated clothes embark on their global journey? That’s the main question film maker Teddy Cherim and fashion designer Lisa Konno wanted to answer in their BNNVARA documentary ‘Goodwill Dumping’.
Teddy and Lisa are literally following the massive amounts of donated clothing, which are sold many times before they end up on the ‘mitumba’ markets of Kenya. For an article in the Dutch VARA Gids magazine, I spoke with Teddy and Lisa when they shot Lisa’s ‘fashion creatures’ on Nairobi’s Gikomba Market.
You can read the article through Blendle, or click on the image below. ‘Goodwill Dumping’ will be premiering on the NFF, the Dutch Film Festival, and will air on Dutch TV station NPO3, Sunday 29 November at 00.10 o’clock.
You can now read my ten-page travel story about Uganda in the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways: Msafiri! The piece features an off-trail safari with Uganda Carnivores doctor Ludwig Siefert, a not-so-successful chimpanzee trek in Kalinzu and a spectacular trip to the mountain gorillas of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. I'm also providing some tips on where to eat, where to stay and which spots in Kampala and Entebbe you shouldn't miss. Nearly all photographs were also taken by me!
You can read the whole issue of Msafiri magazine through this link. If you’d like to read more about my work for Msafiri, you can check out this blogpost about my cover shot for the November 2018 edition, or click here to read my Ethiopia travel story of a couple of months ago.
The cover of this month’s edition of Kenya Airways inflight magazine Msafiri boasts one of my pictures! On the photo I took in the Masai Mara, a coalition of cheetahs rests under an acacia tree. Inside the magazine, there’s some more of my photography of the Masai Mara and New York City. The cover picture is also right next to an introduction by Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta. I’m very proud to have my pictures published alongside photos of renowned photographers like Michael Poliza and Philip Lee Harvey!
I’ve also written a lot of texts for this edition of the magazine, like a Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor (author of Who Fears Death, which will be turned into a very cool HBO series by George R.R. Martin) about her Black Panther comic Shuri and an interview with Tshidi Manye, who has been playing the Lion King role of Rafiki for over 17 years on Broadway. You can read all that and more via these (1) two (2) links.
To read more about the travel story about Ethiopia I have written earlier for Msafiri, check out my earlier blogpost.
For their inflight magazine Msafiri, airliner Kenya Airways asked me to write a travel story about our trip to the Ethiopian Amhara region, where Saskia and I traveled not only to the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, but also the world-famous monolithic churches of Lalibela, the impressive castles of Gondar and the laidback Lake Tana town of Bahir Dar. You can read the ten pages with my photography (i.a.) above, or download the whole PDF of Msafiri Magazine here (also check out the photo book feature of my photo book Streets of New York, on page 69!).
GUP Magazine selected my photography work for the 2019 edition of their New Dutch Photography Talent book! Every year, the magazine publishes a photo book annex catalogue that “celebrates the best emerging Dutch photography talents of the year”. The hardcover publication will be launched later this year and is launched simultaneously with a big exhibition showcasing the work of all selected photographers.
The book, which will contain four of my pictures, has a print run of 3.000 copies and will be globally distributed to galleries, museums, commercial and photography agencies, media companies and institutions that work with imagery. The awe-inspiring collection of pictures is selected by a jury consisting of Roy Kahmann and Willemijn van der Zwaan of Kahmann Gallery, photographer Bastiaan Woudt and the GUP magazine team.
You can get your hands on the book later this year via the GUP magazine store, or check out the 2018 version via this link.
When Musotrees founder Kerol Izwan asked me to write something for his magazine, I immediately said yes. Because Musotrees doesn't only feature great content ("that focuses on journey and destination"), the periodical print from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is also incredibly well-designed. For Volume 5, I wrote a story about my first couple of months in Kenya. You can find the 12 pages with words and 6 pictures on page 22 to page 33 of the magazine, which is for sale here. In The Netherlands, the magazine is for sale at Atheneum Nieuwscentrum in Amsterdam.
Musotrees founder Kerol Izwan asked me to write a story about my stay in Kenya - and so I did! You can read my 1300 words (EN) in the upcoming edition of Musotrees Magazine, which is almost available worldwide. You can check out two sneak peeks above - the magazine is getting printed as I write this! If you look closely, you can see a bit of my story and the photography that goes with it. I'll update my blog page once the Volume 5 of the magazine is available.
I was interviewed for the extra large summer special of Margriet, one of The Netherlands' biggest women's magazines. I gave a bunch of tips and tricks on how to take the perfect (summer holiday) picture with your phone. You can check out the (Dutch) 5 page article on Blende (€)!
Two of the books I have recently worked on for MENDO and teNeues are featured in this month's Glamour Magazine! Both Streets of New York as This Is Not a F*cking Street Style Book can be seen in this month's edition. For both books, I was in charge of the editorial coordination. Next to the page-big picture by Stijn Hoekstra, the Dutch text says: "From 5th Avenue till Washington Street in Brooklyn; coffee table book 'Streets of New York' shows the inspiring diversity of the Big Five". You can read both articles here, via Blendle.
