During 50 years Dutch men were able to enjoy a magazine called De Lach (translated: the Laugh) at the hairdressers. Fist issue appeared in 1924. The recipe of this magazine, which stayed almost the same during the sixties, was jokes and scarcely dressed women. In Holland it was the first magazine doing covered nudes. Later on, during the upcoming sexual revolution ` de Lach` was defeated  by magazines with more explicit nude photography. The last edition appeared 7th april 1972. Read more

Musica: In the period of one year I created a  series of 4 photos dedicated to the theme Music. Idea - concept: I wanted to create story telling pictures in combination with musical instruments. The basic elements were the wooden floor, the grey backdrop and a musical instrument. It took me  a year to complete this series of 4 pictures. Every photo has been shoot on separate day in the studio of my friend Ron Meijer www.ronmeijerfotografie.nl Every photo does have another model and...

In some way  Maffia storiea  got my interest  During the years I  read lots of books about the history of the  Mob and  all the stories connected to maffiosi. So I decided to make this series with models Yolinda Vixen and RudoX. Corset made by Jeroen van der Klis http://www.modelmayhem.com/327905 Musical instruments by Doll's Music in Delft http://www.dolsmuziekhandel.nl/ By the way: the Thompson  gangster  machine pistol was hand made by Rudox He made this piece...

Intriqued by this instrument called His Masters Voice I decided to make a photo series. In February 1909, there was a company who introduced new labels featuring the famous trademark known as "His Master's Voice", generally referred to as HMV. The latter had been designed by Theodore Birnbaum, an executive of the Gramophone Company  in Hanover, Germany. An icon of the company was to become very well known - the picture of a dog listening to an early gramaphone . The...

The Wild Bunch was one of my first  staged photoshoots - together with a photofriend, who contacted me with  this wonderful Wild Bunch of models Eva , Mayke, Vince, Marin  and their dog. The name  for this shoot was stolen from my favorite music band called Massive Attack, who performed with their crew called the Wild Bunch. These models were so inspiring to work with that I realised myself this was the form of  photography I really...