Hi, I’m Bas.
I’m curious about people, places and the things that make life interesting to me. I tend to think about them deeply. Outside work, I enjoy photography, human connection, walking, a good black coffee, climbing, music and reading.
At times I can be overly analytical. When I think of something, I can go deep down that rabbit hole of thinking, analysing, and optimisation. This has caused me to not always live life fully and stay safely down in that rabbit hole on many occasions.
Nowadays, I try to escape the rabbit hole more often by simply paying attention, staying curious, and not spending so much time analysing that I forget to actually live. So now there’s more time for both sides of the coin: curiosity & simplicity, solitude & connection, ambition & letting go. I don’t need to turn everything into a project that sends me down that rabbit hole. Some things are simply worth doing.
The ampersand in the logo reflects the duality in my life, or maybe even life in general. My interest in connections, contrasts and the spaces in between. It brings things together without requiring them to become the same. It sits between two words, and that’s where the tension resides.
I think that interest in what connects things, and what happens in between, also finds its way into how I look at the world through photography.
Photography has been a big part of my life for nearly two decades. I still love it, but these days, I’m just as interested in what happens away from the camera: walking, climbing, being outside and noticing the small things.
I’m also drawn to the stories behind the people and places I encounter. The personal connections, the histories and the experiences that give them meaning. Sometimes I find a way to tell those stories through photographs; sometimes words are needed too. It’s another way of exploring the things that make life interesting to me.
This website is where this comes together: photographs, observations, experiences and thoughts about life as it unfolds.