How to Manage Your Time as a Creative
For almost a year now, I have had a coin in my pocket. It is a memento mori medallion from the Daily Stoic shop. It is small and has three symbols pressed into the front: a skull, a flower and an…
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For almost a year now, I have had a coin in my pocket. It is a memento mori medallion from the Daily Stoic shop. It is small and has three symbols pressed into the front: a skull, a flower and an…
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For years, I said no to workshops. People asked, and I declined every time because I did not feel like the right person to tell anyone what to do. I am not a teacher. In my view, a workshop in a…
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Most artists I know measure their audience by the number of followers they have. The number is visible, it increases, and it feels as though you have built it. I believed that, too, for years — until…
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On Thursday, 10 September, my solo exhibition, The Shape of Absence, will open at MC2gallery in Milan.This will also mark the opening of their new space. MC2 is returning to Milan with a gallery on…
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On Sunday, 20 September 2026, I will open the doors of my Alkmaar studio for a day we are calling ‘Inspiration Day’. This will be the first time that the working studio, as well as the gallery, has…
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Some work has to wait.Portal has been sitting on my list for a long time. Every few months I would return to it, look again, and decide it was not the moment. There was never anything wrong with the…
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A while ago I did something I had never done before. I sat down and wrote out three full versions of my own future.Not vague hopes. Three complete lives, each built around one priority. The first was…
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I spent part of May in Paris, shooting for Numéro. Between setups, I kept looking up. The rooftops of Paris do something to me every time. The zinc, the chimneys, the angles repeating across the…
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Wherever you are in the world, my books and book stands are ready to order. And right now there is an extra reason to do it. To celebrate news I have been waiting more than a year to share, we are…
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Most people think collecting art is a transaction. You see a work, you like it, you buy it. Money moves, the piece changes hands, and the exchange is done. I have spent years watching that assumption…
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Some readers have asked. So this week, the answer.In July last year I ended my representation in the Netherlands. Bildhalle, who had been showing my work in Amsterdam since 2020, still represents me…
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Studio Petit Oiseau, Paris. Set 3, January 2026. The first frame I exposed in colour in fifteen years was waiting for me on a stage Aymeric Arnould had built from scratch.For fifteen years I have…
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April was loud. A small black-and-white print in a Milanese living room I could not stop thinking about. A book about finitude on the studio worktable. An archive of fashion shoots no one was allowed…
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Most of my photographs are made on my own terms. In my own studio. With frames I set myself, not frames someone else hands me. I am an artist before I am anything else, and the pictures I am known…
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Walk through any city and ask yourself: who decided this? Not one building or one street, but the relationship between them. The material of a facade next to the texture of a sidewalk. The height of…
Read essay →The third episode of the Studio Notes podcast is here.Studio Notes: Conversations is a podcast shaped by curiosity. Each episode is a one-to-one conversation with someone whose work or way of seeing…
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A fashion designer builds furniture that looks like it was excavated from the earth. In a Japanese garden, someone has been cutting the same tree for forty years. A sculptor once patted a block of…
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Most of what I experience disappears. The meals, the conversations, the light on a particular morning. Gone within days, sometimes hours. And yet, some of those moments return as images. Not planned.…
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This month, five things that kept pulling me back. A house that treats objects as philosophy. A book that made the Amazon feel close enough to hear. A photographer whose work redefined how I think…
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HENRO — published by 1605 Collective — is now available for pre-order.Books will ship out as of Monday the 30thPREORDER HEREIn March 2024, my brother and I travelled to Shikoku, Japan. We brought…
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