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About me

When I'm behind the camera composing a shot, time disappears — every detail demands my full attention and nothing else matters. I'm an Amsterdam-based freelance cinematographer, creative thinker and filmmaker. BA Cinematography from MET Film School London (2014). From indie sets to Netflix — driven by one belief: Light is the real language of cinematography.

I was born and raised in Amsterdam since 1987. Everything changed when a friend invited me to help out on a music video production at the Film Academy of Amsterdam — an eighteen-hour shoot that left me completely hooked, falling in love with filmmaking and, above all, the art of the camera.

Since then I've worked as a freelance cinematographer, gaffer, and focus puller in the Dutch film industry and internationally. My experience has grown from intimate indie sets all the way to large-scale cinema productions, commercials, and an American Netflix show — each one deepening my understanding of what truly great images require.

I firmly believe that the tool is never what matters most. Any camera can capture a memorable image — what counts is how you light a shot, how you compose it, and what you choose to say with it. Working as a gaffer and lighting technician has made me a far better cinematographer, because Light is the real language of cinematography.

In recent years I've been developing my writing skills, completing a scriptwriting course at the Script Academy of Amsterdam — increasingly drawn to creating my own work, with an ultimate dream of making a full-length narrative feature film.

Next to my work as a filmmaker, I've found a love for teaching younger students the art of cinematography, showing them how to tell powerful stories through the medium of moving images.

I'm also exploring what AI-generated imagery can offer as a creative tool. While I'll always prefer the craft of capturing a real image in-camera, I genuinely believe AI opens up shots and sequences that were simply out of reach for independent filmmakers — impossible angles, impossible environments, impossible scale. I still see it as a tool rather than a replacement, but one I'm excited to push as far as it can go.

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AvailabilityLooking for work

ContractFreelance

LocationAmsterdam, Netherlands

Skill LevelMiddleweight

LanguagesDutch & English fluently. A bit of German and Spanish

Tagged Job TitlesLighting Cameraperson, Camera Operator, Camera Assistant

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Camera Operator, Directing, Editing, Lighting, Teaching / Lecturing, Writing

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Advertising, Audio / Visual, Cinema, Education, Entertainment, Exhibitions, Fashion, Film (Feature), Film (Short / Documentary), Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, Lifestyle, New Media, Photography, Production, Theatre

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