Her name is Edward.

 Shipping Industry * Assignment Work

My work is divided into personal projects and assignment work. 

Here on this page you will find a combination of images ranging from almost 10 years of joining pilots on their work or working on a commission for the Province of North Holland for several years. I followed the preparation of the island for the largest sealock of the world and led to me sailing along to Norway on a ship and making a book about this journey. Approximately 90% of all trade over water is done within the ocean's landscape, we just don't see it and it is miraculously important and fairly inhuman. But, despite the environment of steel, rust, salt, and silence, I am drawn to this world and the people who work in it. Whenever I am on assignment, I try and find something personal. This is also why the images included here a little bit commissioned and a little bit my own perspective and also because I photographed with various take-outs in mind and not only worked for my own archive.

My book is a personal navigation through the maritime industry based in Amsterdam and includes text and research. You can order my book 'I went looking for a ship' HERE.

I have worked frequently for Loodswezen (pilots in the lock of IJmuiden / Port of Amsterdam) during the last 10 years.

Pilots are dropped off and picked up by tenders several miles from the coast. By way of a ladder the pilot dis/embarks on the ship. An approaching tender means it's time to leave the ship and let it continue its journey to another port.

The largest sealock in the world in IJmuiden connecting the sea to the Port of Amsterdam. Construction started in 2016 and it was opened officially in 2022.

Bontrup in the Port of Amsterdam.

One of the doors for the new sealock arriving over sea from South Korea on January 24, 2019. 

De Koperen Ploeg.