1. Bio (selection)
Awards/Lists
2005 - Best magazine photograph,the Netherlands. (Neelie Kroes, issued in Intermediair)
2002 - Magnet (best photography recruitment advertisement for IBM)
2002 - Runner up Prix de Rome
2001 - Photography Award of the Netherlands (PANL) - 1 gold and 2 silver nominations
2000 - Search for Art nominee, a worldwide call by Mandarina Duck. Publication with work by 100
contemporary artists.
Clients I worked for/with:
Pleegzorg Nederland, Hohnny Wonder, BEN, KesselsKramer, Volvo, UPC, SVB, IBM, VPRO,
Aegon,New York Times, ING, ARA Advertising, Interpay, CARP, Intermediair, HP de Tijd, Credits
Media, ING/Postbank, ILSE, Ordina, THONIK, Ontwerpwerk, TPG-Post, De Groene, Amsterdammer,
Leuke Dingen Doen, Ordina, De Werkvloer, Quote Magazine, Safe Magazine, Rijskwaterstaat, Vlieger
communicatie, Het Stormt, De Toneelschuur,Less Agency,IFFR Rotterdam.
Selected biography
Education
1993-1997 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, the Netherlands
1990-1993 Architecture - Polytechnic Faculty Rotterdam
Initiatives/Projects
jan 2013 - Clothes Drop Syria Humanitarian-aid-operation with the participation of 7 Art
Academies in the Netherlands along with 40 other private addresses to
serve as a drop-off point for clothes and aid.
In 4 weeks time more then 30 tonnes ofaid was collected, which
was then shipped to refugees in Syria.
sep 2010 - Art Flow for Pakistan - Rotterdam
Benificial art-auction held at the NAi (Dutch Architecture Institute)
mar 2010 - RotDocFotoFest - 'Close to Home' - Rotterdam 2010
1st Rotterdam Documentary Photography Festival in
collaboration with 9 guest-curators
okt 2009 - Dagboek Charlois. (Charlois Diary) Bookproject with images and
literary texts contributed by 18 adolescents from the neighboorhood
Charlois, Rotterdam. In collaboration with 10 writers/poets.
may 2009 - 'Orbis Pictus Caravanus - Naarden 2009
A travelling exhibition in a mobile home with an ever changing
view on the world. With work by Ayatollah Musa,Paul Versteeg and
Bosz de Kler
Exhibitions:
july 2015 - UNGRAVITY - Margreeth Olsthoorn, Rotterdam
oct 2014 - Atelier-route Kralingen – exhibition new work and free portraits for visitors.
sept 2014 - Route du Nord – Palmtree & dades
aug 2014 - Delirious Rotterdam – during world harbour days Rotterdam, Hulstkampgebouw
Noordereiland
mar 2014 -Equilibrium – exhibition about the balance between work & life / home-gallery.
july 2013 - Arboretum Trompenburg – garden house.
Pictures of trees.
oct 2011 - Portraits International Film Festival Rotterdam
In cooperation with EYE Filmmuseum & CBK Zuidoost.
apr 2009 - 'RogierSchietMotten' - 'RogierShootsMoths'

2. A selection of pictures of moths (Trichoptera)
Museumof Natural History, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
nov 2007 -SML. Exhibition to celebrate the 325th birthday of the Royal
Academy of Art, The Hague
in cooperation with Guus Rijven and Susan van Hengstum
may 2006 -W139/Basement, Amsterdam
group-exhibition
nov 2004 -'Rotterdam Bevalt' - Exhibition of 30 portraits of famous people
from Rotterdam
Gallerie 'Vips-Art' Rotterdam
dec 2001 - Exhibition at gallerie 2 1/2 x 4 1/2, Amsterdam
dec 2001 -Dutch Photography Institute,presentation of SEC 08
groupexhibition
oct 2000 -Exhibition gallerie 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 Amsterdam
Sponsored by Art Lab Rotterdam
juli 1998 -Nieuwe Oogst.' New Harvest'
Mondriaanhuis Amersfoort.
groupexhibition
sept 1997 - People of the City, Krefeld
groupexhibition
juli 1997 -Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
dec 1996 -Streetgallery Amsterdam Centre of Photography
three photographs taken at the fairground in Rotterdam
Publications
2013 Het Beste van Nederland (The best of the Netherlands) by Rik Zaal - Publisher: Lebowski
2009 PUBLICATION, bi-annual printed publication by Nick Turpin, UK
2004 Rotterdam Bevalt, 30 interviews with famous people from Rotterdam
Publisher: Uitgeverij Kapstok
2002 Prix de Rome 2002, Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, Rotterdam (longlist)
2001 Panl Awards # 11, Portfolio series: Silver
People: Silver & Gold
2001 Camera Austria, Forum no. 75
2001 SEC O8
2000 Search For Art 4.0 www.searchforart.org
1999 SEEN - Canon Magazine, portfolio Innocent Bystanders
1998 Camera Austria, Forum. No. 62-63
1996 European Cultural Foundation,Images Of Europe
Teaching/courses
sept 2012/jan 2013 - Teacher/tutor Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam