For Chinese headphones brand Aftershokz, I spent some time with the world’s fastest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge. In his training centre in Kaptagat, I followed him and the NN Running Team to film for a commercial showcasing the Aftershokz x Eliud Kipchoge limited edition headphones.
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Tills (14) fell pregnant after her school closed: a reportage for RTL Nieuws
Kenya’s schools have been closed for over six months. And so Tills, who is fourteen years old and lives with her mother in Nairobi’s informal settlement Korogocho, has had a lot of time on her hands. She frequently met up with friends when her mother was working, and had sex with a boy who was a bit older than her. He told her that she wouldn’t get pregnant from sleeping with him once, but he turned out to be wrong. When neighbors saw her body changing, they were afraid that Tills would abort the unborn child, and so they brought her to the police station. That’s how Tills’ mother found out her daughter had fallen pregnant. Even though her mom will be the one who will take care of the baby, Tills will not go back to school, as teenage pregnancies are stigmatized.
See Saskia Houttuin’s report I filmed for RTL Nieuws below:
Website update: photojournalism, NGO photography and more
You’re looking at the 3.0 version of my website! You can now find selected photography work on my Photography page, sorted in four different categories: photojournalism, NGO photography, travel photography and corporate photography assignments. On these pages, you can find some yet-to-be-published work created for The Guardian newspaper and Dutch broadcaster VPRO.
Also, my blog page is now called ‘Recent work’, you can find a list of clients on this page and I have added a separate page dedicated to video assignments for companies like Simyo and RTL Nieuws.
New work: video for the British HM Government
For a video I created for the British HM Government, Pallavi Singh and I interviewed Kenyan innovator Bernard Chiira, about his innovative accelerator program 'Innovate Now', which should benefit Kenya's disability sector. The HMG Africa Campaigns Hub shared the video on their social platforms - on Twitter, the video has been watched over 3.000 times. To watch the vid, click on the ‘play’ icon on the still above.
To see more videos I have created for Simyo, Amref, RTL Nieuws and others, click here.
New work for NPO Radio 1: UEFA Women's EURO
As a part of my job at NPO Radio 1, I made a small video series focused on the 'WEURO' European Soccer Championship for women, which is organised in The Netherlands.
We have a lot of very talented female soccer players, yet we don't have a female radio or TV commentator. That's why we came up with a contest, to see if we can find the best female sports commentator of The Netherlands.
To get people to sign up, I've made a bunch of small clips with 'BN'ers', Dutch celebrities, like comedian Viggo Waas, soccer player Leonne Stentler, actor Frank Lammers, radio host Lara Rense, comedian Peter Heerschop and soccer player Daphne Koster.
You can watch the videos through the NPO Radio 1 Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter feeds.