As a New Dutch Photography Talent, I’m very proud to share that my work is on display at the legendary music venue ‘De Melkweg’ in Amsterdam! Together with the other ‘New Dutch’ talents, my work is beautifully printed by Fotolab Kiekie and exhibited at the ‘EXPO’ part of De Melkweg. Browse through the pictures above (from left to right) to see more of the exhibition.
Read more about the New Dutch Photography project, set up by GUP Magazine & Nikon, in my previous blogpost.
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.
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 (€)!
Streets of New York keeps on getting positive attention in the world press - German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung has written an article about the MENDO book in the Saturday edition of their newspaper. The article in one of Germany's biggest newspapers focuses on my editorial journey to find new angles and perspectives on The Big Apple. You can read the article about MENDO's and teNeues' 'Bildband' through this link, or check out the plain text below. The headline, 'Der Reiz des Neuen' translates to 'The Charm of the New'.
Kein Ort der Welt ist so schwierig einzufangen mit der Kamera wie New York: "Jeder Zentimeter", schreibt Joost Bastmeijer in der Einleitung zu dem Bildband "Streets of New York", ist "schon dokumentiert worden". Andererseits verändert sich die Stadt viel schneller als andere, bietet also stets neue Motive. Und jeder Neuankömmling, jeder Besucher sucht nach einer eigenen Perspektive.
Bastmeijer hat sich durch unzählige Online-Portfolios und Instagram-Accounts geklickt auf der Suche nach Fotografen, die tatsächlich neue, eigene Bilder-Geschichten finden. Er ist tatsächlich - zwischen Unmengen immer gleicher Aufnahmen - fündig geworden. 40 Fotografen sind mit ihren Werken in "Streets of New York" vertreten, nicht alle Szenen sind wirklich originell. Viele aber doch. Deren Stärke ist, dass sie sich nicht im Absonderlichen verlieren. Es sei, so Bastmeijer, immer darum gegangen, dass der Betrachter jedes Mal einen typischen New-York-Moment erkennt. Casey Tang, der mit Bildern in dem Band vertreten ist, bemerkt dazu: "Gute Fotografie wahrt eine Balance zwischen Vertrautheit und Neuem." Drei größere Linien fallen auf: Manhattan wird nicht mehr so sehr von unten, sondern zumeist von oben fotografiert. Das unterirdische New York übt offenbar einen starken Reiz aus. Und viele Künstler fotografieren durch ein Motiv im Vordergrund hindurch etwas Dahinterliegendes - Sinnbild für die ständige Überschreibung des Stadtbildes.
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.
Les Others has published six pages with my pictures and texts in their French-English magazine! Their 'Volume VI' issue is dubbed 'The Radical Issue', and so they have featured the pictures I took in Norway, when I captured an ice swim of Trygve. He's a bearded Norseman who froze his grandfather because he believes that if you keep a corpse cold enough, it will at some point in time be possible to resuscitate it. He also thinks that ice baths are healthy for anyone who is still alive, and that’s why he went for a swim in the middle of the harsh winter.
'The Radical Issue' is for sale via the Les Others website - they ship worldwide. One of the pictures was featured and auctioned by the Australian web page The Adventure Handbook.
One of my pictures is published in the Dutch edition of Lonely Planet Traveller! This month’s edition is dedicated to festivals all over the world, and for that reason the editors featured a picture I took in Ivory Coast, during Grand Bassam’s annual Abissa festival.
You'll find more features, collaborations and assignments on the 'Features' page.
After taking over their Instagram account, the guys from Escapism Magazine also featured my photography in their print edition! If you're in the United Kingdom, you can check out the donkey shot I took in Jordan in the March edition of UK's biggest independent travel magazine. Here's what they wrote:
"Follow Amsterdam-based Joost's adventures to West Africa, India and more for a glimpse into the daily lives of the country's residents. Baguettes on a motorbike? Donkey in a desert? Soccer at sunset? It's all here."
You'll find more features, collaborations and assignments on the 'Features' page.
One of my photos is for sale! The guys from The Adventure Handbook are selling an A1 print of this picture on Fujifilm lustre paper, for 250,- AUD (171 Euros). Check out their website for more information or click here to see more breath taking pictures they're selling.
The Australian website and magazine 'The Adventure Handbook' set up an international photo competition, and one of my pictures I took on a trip to Norway (see above) made it to the final round. That also meant that my photo was included in their Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions. To read more about the photo comp, see what the jury people from VICE wrote about it (they also featured my photo on their TCP website).
About the picture: my friend Lex Boon and I once traveled to Norway to find Trygve, a guy Lex was making a story about. We found him on the shortest day of the year, when he was swimming in a frozen ice lake. We extensively interviewed the bearded Norseman about his frozen, dead grandpa - Trygve believes that if you keep a corpse cold enough, it will at some point in time be possible to resuscitate it. He also thinks that ice baths are healthy for anyone who is still alive. That’s why he went for a swim in the middle of the harsh winter.
Update: the print is sold! But if you'd like to buy one of my pictures, you can always contact me.
Everybody loves lists. And I especially love them if they feature me as the number one Instagram photographer of Amsterdam, like the Dutch newspaper Het Parool did (sorry for bragging) some time back. Luckily, I wasn't on their 'Biggest Photo Cliché's of Amsterdam'-list.
