Jacob Jan Boerma – Food Meets Art

Just published. Dutch master chef Jacob Jan Boerma received us for this photo shoot at Restaurant De Leest in Vaasen. He composed some great looking and even better tasting dishes. Special thanks go to Frauke Koops for the styling and production, Peter Steiner for the layout and the restaurant staff for there great attention.

Photographed for “Koch des Monats”, Der Feinschmecker 03/2012, Styling: Frauke Koops, Art Direction: Peter Steiner

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Isabel Jonet – Food for the hungry

Isabel Jonet, Banco Alimentar

Isabel Jonet has driven the Portuguese food-bank Banco Alimentar to be the most successful in Europe. I was impressed by the long queues of volunteers waiting for there turn to recollect, unload and repackage food at the recent Banco Alimentar recollection campaign. The great number of children of all ages participating gave great hope for the future. Reader’s Digest has just named Isabel European of  the Year.

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Canarias

Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife

It was great fun to shoot the Canary Islands for GEO Saison.

Spain, Canary Islands, La Gomera

Spain, Canary Islands, La Gomera

Spain, Canary Islands, La Gomera

Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma

The Canary Islands for GEO Saison 01/2012, Germany

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Best wishes for your holidays and a Happy New Year 2012!

Happy 2012 - Istanbul

I wish you great holidays and I look forward to see you here in a Happy New Year 2012!

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Henk Schiffmacher – tattoo artist and collector

Amsterdam, Henk Schiffmacher, tattoo artist Amsterdam, Henk Schiffmacher, tattoo artist

Tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher, aka Hanky Panky, recently inaugurated the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum. It will show the world’s largest Tattoo collection. Henk has tattooed international film and rock & roll stars including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain, Willy de Ville and Herman Brood.

Photographed for Delta Airlines Sky magazine

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Tony Kerrison, CTO of ING Bank – Cloud computing

CTO Tony Kerrison, INGTony Kerrison, ING Bank

CTO Tony Kerrison is moving ING bank’s IT infrastructure to the cloud.

Photographed for Bank Technology News 12/11

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Istanbul – Turkish Delight

Istanbul travel photography

Istanbul – Turkish Delight,  photographed for Delta Airlines Sky magazine

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Organic farming for Rabobank Dichterbij

Organic farming, Niek van den Boer, t'SchopNiek van den Broek is a young organic farmer and  member of the Youth Food Movement YFM. YFM is a network of young professionals, who try to change the actual food production and consumption. It sounds strange when he, as a cattle farmer, asks people to eat less meat. He criticises the lack of respect for animals in today’s meat production chain. At his farm ‘t Schop in Hilvarenbeek you can buy meat or prepare it directly in one of their cooking  workshops.

Rabobank Dichterbij magazine autumn/2011

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Ioannis Ikonomou – the man who speaks 32 languages

 

While I speak 6 of them, this assigment added a new dimension to my concept of a language. Ioannis Ikomomou learns languages submerging himself into a countries culture, customs and eating it’s food. He works as a translator for the EU in Brussels and believes: “Problems arise just because people don’t understand one another.”

Photographed for Reader’s Digest 09/11

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Groningen – Capital of Taste 2011

 

Groningen, Dutch Capital of Taste 2011, photographed for Mobil. Brussels Lof is a great place to eat fish. Chef Martin Jarings serves fresh products from the fish market around the corner. Echt lekker!

Published in Mobil, the magazine of Deutsche Bahn, 06/2011.

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