The toy collector

Another amazing day working with Bart Ramakers kicks of 10 days of non-stop working. Although working 10 days in a row is not unusual, doing this in 3 different countries is for me. It means getting on a plane, shooting the same day and on to the next. It is stamped with amazing and exciting projects and I'm looking forward to each and every one of them!

As usual I went into the shoot without knowing the details for Bart's new project, but as soon as I arrived at the location I could tell it would be story telling at it's best with another highly detailed shot.

MUA: Rania Visagiste

We had a few minutes spare in between set decoration and make up, so we came up with another shot called "War games", about the war against female nudity and liberty on social media.

Ladies of Boulevard Leopold

Last weekend I was honored to join Zoi Morgan's "Ladies at the Mansion" event in Antwerp for a fabulous shootday with extraordinary styling.

I had a great time with co-models Zoi, Ivory Flame and Mischkah Scott and the participants. There is something about Zoi's events that attracts like-minded creatives for a relaxed day and lots of stunning images.

Photographer: Maarten Scholtheis

Photographer: Bob Zietse                                     Photographer: Hans Miller

Photographer: Bernhard Ehrminger

On Tour: USA's East Coast

Boston:

Photographer: Yuri Kriventsoff

New York:

Photographer: Spyro Zarifopoulos

Photographer: MamudsNY

Photographer: Marcin Dobrev

Atlanta:

Photographer: Sublime Lightworks

Latex: Westward Bound

MUA: Molly Todd & BXCCS

One morning in Paris

It's strange how some days go. One minute you're getting up at 6.30 in the morning, a little later you are on the train to Paris to enjoy a walk in the sun through the Parisian streets only a few hours later. As grumpy and tired I was in the morning, that's how lighthearted I was when walking the streets. I had enough time so decided to do everything on foot in stead of taking the metro.

Around noon I arrived at the hotel where I was going to shoot with Julien Sunyé. As usual it was great working with Julien. He did a few testshots to see how he wanted to approach the location and to check light and angles, and we were ready to start. We shot a few setups on the balcony of the hotel, which had a great view of the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day, which was a bit of a challenge with the sun playing hide and seek behind the clouds. We ended up with great shots!

A little later I was back in the Parisian streets with a little time left for sightseeing, to hop back on the train home a few hours later. What a great day!

Workshop: Ediburgh fashion (pt.II)

I travelled to Edinburgh to do another workshop with Trevor and Faye Yerbury. After the succes of our first workshop, time for part 2 with the same concept. The beautiful hairdo's in all photos were done by Faye.

Faye Yerbury:

Tom Needham:

(this is a Back of Camera preview)

Derek Ramage:

Workshop: Edinburgh fashion

Last weekend I travelled to Scotland to do a few workshops with Trevor and Faye Yerbury. We did 2 fashion days and 1 art nude day. The fashion workshop involved a lot of walking to about 5 to 6 different locations in the center of Edinburgh. For the nude workshop we had a beautiful victorian garden to our disposal. Here are a few results so far!

From the masters

• Trevor Yerbury:

 

• Faye Yerbury:

 

From the Delegates

• Chris O.:

•  Ian Coyle:

•  Glenda:

• William Ghan:
  

On tour: Mini tour in Germany

Straight from Crete to Germany for a wonderful weekend of creating.

First up was my shoot with La Calva, all the way in the East of Germany. Our location was a beautiful, old farm with amazing attic. The owner tried her best to keep history alive by setting up the place with antiquities only. The entire place had a rural 1920's vibe with fresh and dried flowers all over. Home goals! <3 

Next up was my shoot with Jan Harms, a little closer to home. We started shooting in a hotel room but had also planned to go out and shoot in the city, but the weather wasn't on our side, so we only got a few shots outside. Nevertheless, I am really happy with the images we got!

Italian alps and The Black Holes Project

A new year has started and the best way to start the new year, is to dive right in. Right into 30cm of snow in the Italian Alps that is.

I was booked with 2 other models by Julien Sunye for his art project about World War I and II. We flew in to Munich, took a taxi to the Italian Alps and started our 2hour hike to the location after a very short night of sleep. 

When we reached the top, we could see what was so special about this location. A long lint of anti-tank pins stood strong in the freezing mist. By the time we were ready to undress and start shooting, an icy wind rose to make working conditions even harder. Our shoot lasted exactly 1min30, but nevertheless we got 2 amazing photos for the project! 

On tour: Germany & Switzerland tour

Day 1: Neurenberg, Germany

Shot a set on location with Gert O Photo.

Day 2: Munich, Germany

I can share a few BOCs of my shoot with Akinari Yakomoto. We shot art nude, vintage lingerie and latex on location.

Second shoot of the day was with Armin Reinhardt. We started with a black and white beauty set and ended with blade-runner inspired portraits. So cool to do! I could play around with the tube lights and light myself with it.

Day 3: Sankt Gallen, Swittzerland 

Got the chance to shoot at this wonderful location with Donnerstern, an old villa in the center of Sankt Gallen, which will also be where I spend the night.

Day 4: Amriswil, Switzerland

Next up was Bruno Birkhoffer, who has been on my "want to shoot with" list for a few years. We shot portraits, art nude, a commercial set for Filanea jewelry and fashion. It was so nice to work with him. He is very nice and professional and had all these great ideas! I loved shooting in the hammock as well, it was definitely challenging and probably not very elegant in between poses, but really amazing what you can do with something so simple. It created opportunity to try out new and crazy poses, things that are impossible when posing while standing. I love how it turned out!