New work: official portraits for mayor of Bergen municipality

For ‘Gemeente Bergen’, a Dutch municipality in Northern Holland, I took several portraits of mayor Peter Rehwinkel. Rehwinkel, who has previously worked as a parlement member and as mayor of cities like Naarden and Groningen, had just been appointed as Bergen’s new mayor when COVID19 spread across The Netherlands. In the garden of Museum Kranenburgh, I took some portraits of him, which the municipality will use for official occasions. Some images have already been published by regional and national media.

Interview about my photo series on Covid19 in Bergen, The Netherlands

Local newspaper Contact met de Egmonden interviewed me about one of my most recent photography series on the impact on in Bergen. In the Dutch coastal municipality that consists of Schoorl, Egmond-Binnen, Egmond aan den Hoef, Egmond aan Zee and Bergen and Bergen aan Zee, I tried to visually capture the impact of the pandemic on daily life. Parts of the series has previously been published by local, regional and national news media.

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Read more: New Liberation Day work for newspaper De Telegraaf

New Liberation Day work for newspaper De Telegraaf

For a longer photo series I’m working on, I am following Bergen mayor Peter Rehwinkel. A small part of the series about how COVID19 is impacting different individuals in the small coastal municipality of Bergen was picked up by the most-read newspaper of The Netherlands, ‘De Telegraaf’. In their ‘Stan Huygens Journaal’ about politics, they wrote about how mayor Rehwinkel handed over the first of many ‘Freedom Meal Boxes’ to the elderly Cees Mooy, as part of the yearly (but due to COVID19 alternative) Liberation Day celebrations.

Click here to read the article and see more photographs.