portrait of Anna

Meet Anna and her gorgeous hair. Always when starting a shoot, I test the lightning on my subject. Just to check if all is alright. The below image was the first test image, actually the first image I ever made of Anna, and I must admit I really love the feeling of it. Funny thing is though, that my lights did not went off ;)

After solving this tiny little technical problem, we created some very intimate portraits, with the first one being my absolute favorite.

As with most dancers, we did some dancing ones too.


THE band: Jessie + Lucija

Meet Jessie and Lucija.

The don’t have a name yet for their band. It will come, one day. Till then, they enjoy the jam-sessions they have together.

One from Zagreb, but living in London, the other from The Netherlands, but living in Zagreb. I met them under the cherry tree. Encounters can be so nice :)


portrait of Eva

As I am following dancers on IG, I noticed Eva and I took the courage to ask her for a portrait. I’m so glad she accepted cause she looks amazing on the images.

And I really love it that she choose the image below. It shows how much fun photographing can be :)


portrait of Tena

Interior designer, bar-owner, entrepreneur, singer. How to photograph someone as they are? How to portrait someone with such a wide variety of interests? I came in contact with Tena cause she just launched a new single ”Sutra” and despite being very busy, she managed to spend half an hour with me in the studio.

Meet Tena, and how I see her in her roles…

Interior designer

Bar-owner

Entrepreneur

Singer

and finally, the Tena as she is …


portrait of Lucija

I met Lucija together with Jessie (see previous post). Though from Croatia, she understands dutch as she studied several years at the Amsterdam Dance Academy. Next to dance she drums though and just joined the band of Jessie (or the other way around, not sure). Anyway, meet Lucija.

As the photosession took us two hours, we had quite some jam sessions as well. Really enjoyed it.


portrait of Jessie

I met Jessie outside the studio. She finished a session with her band-mate and the music studio is in the same complex as my studio. We were meant to met. I just photographed Asuka, and we were chatting on the way to the road. Jessie overheard us and recognized my accent and approached us: “am I Dutch?”. No sense in denying it. Anyway, long story short, within one week we had a photosession. Meet Jessie.

Ofcourse I asked her to play as well, and during an intense session I managed to capture as she is …




encounter #19: Dusko

Dusko owns the family restaurant. Actually, I’m not even sure if he owns it or one of the family members. It doesn’t matter. Whenever we’re there, Dusko is there, so it was time to create a portrait of him in his own place.


encounter #18: Martin

I’ve met Martin several times now at a friend’s dinner but till now, I never asked him for a portrait. That said, as Martin is a nice guy, for sure he would not refuse me so after the first course I collected my courage and asked him. It’s so funny, that still, after so many years, so many portraits, it still so hard to ask. Nevertheless, I’m happy I did as the portrait of Martin turned out very cool.

Taken in full sunlight, but I used a reflector as a fill to balance out the contrasts. I love the reflection it creates in the sunglasses.

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