My series called Mathildes Dress is about the story of the Dutch actress Mathilde Willink, who saw herself as a piece of Art instead of a human being.  The Dutch couturier Fon Leng made " different" skirts for Mathilde ... like this one. Mathilde was a model and the second wife of the Dutch painter Carel Willink (1900-1983). This skirt originally belonged to  Mathilde, who was found dead in her appartment in the 70-ties. Until now nobody knows what exactly happened. When Willink met Mathilde...

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 mainly scarcely dressed women in particular movie stars.  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...

Musica: In the period of year I decided to create a  series of 4 photos dedicated to the theme Musica Idea -concept: I wanted to create story telling pictures in combination with musical instruments or music. The basic elements were the wooden floor, the grey backdrop and a musical instrument. It took me three quater of 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...

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 about this. 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 pressing plant in Hanover, Germany. The Gramophone Company was never known as the HMV or His Master's Voice company. An icon of the...