‘Sometimes I am fourteen’
Ongoing since 2020
‘Sometimes I am fourteen’ is a long-term project that I started at the end of 2020.
The work revolves around my little brother Lawrence, a creative, cheerful, but withdrawn fourteen-year-old boy. Lawrence and I understand each other and speak the same language, with words and without words. Because we share our lives and our childhood. Because we are both artists. Because there is a love between us, that is all around.
The trust and the close bond we share, retains its strength when I hold my camera between us. This allows me to capture him up close and in his most vulnerable moments.
‘Sometimes I am fourteen’ shows the special bond between Lawrence and me. It’s an intimate and personal project that also captures universal themes such as growing up and forming your own identity.
Lawrence allows me to capture his childhood and puberty and, concurrently,
contemplate my own. I recognise myself in him. In his daring and his fears. He stirs up my childhood memories and perhaps not only mine, since we all have been fourteen sometimes.
EYES ON US – The Open Eyes Foundation
2024
In honor of International Albinism Awareness Day, I got to portray Ela. A lovely eight year old girl with albinism. To celebrate this important day, Galerie158 and The Open Eyes Foundation organized the exhibition EYES ON US in the center of Rotterdam. My photograph of Ela was part of this inspiring project.
‘Tussenkind’ / ‘In-between-child’
2023
In an intimate portrait, photographer and filmmaker, Eliza-Sophie Sekrève, shows what her thirteen-year-old brother Lawrence experiences during the period in between being a child and an adolescent. While also revealing the loving bond between the two of them.