BIOGRAPHY

For me, photography started 34 years ago at the age of fifteen. On my mother’s birthday, my uncle Cor gave me his old darkroom equipment. I immediately became addicted to the athmosphere and excitement of printing my own photographs. 

• 'Life in Baghdad: An intimate portrait' New York Times LENS Blog (US)

• ''A monday, or any day, in Kabul' New York Times LENS Blog (US)

• 'The Pool photographer, Literally' New York Times LENS Blog (US)

• 'Connecting with Syrian refugees', New York Times LENS Blog (US)

• ‘Once upon a Greek island, migrants and toerists’, New York Times LENS Blog (US)

• 'The Pool photographer' New York Times Page Two (US)

• 'Building a bridge to Syrians', New York Times Page Two (US)

• ‘Des Migrants racontent a leurs enfants’ …, Le Monde (FR)

• ‘The giant Gas field that rocked the Netherlands’, The Wall Street Journal (US)

• ‘Surreal images from Belgium’s Aalst carnival’, The Washington Post (US)

• ‘In the Netherlands, five living generations of women’, The Washington Post (US)

• 'The Austrian village that's a Muslim holiday hotspot', The Guardian (UK)

• 'Marieke van der Velden's swimming pools' The Guardian (UK)

• ‘The people who fled Syria for Lebanon’ The Guardian (UK)

• 'This Austrian town mirrors Quran's description of Utopia', CNN Amanpour (UK)

• '...Only one Austrian ski town will do', Wired (US)

• ‘Un giorno qualunque a Kabul ’, La Reppubblica (IT)

• ‘Lettere per il futuro’, Internazionale (IT)

• 'Dall'Uganda alla Colombia: viaggio di piscina' La Repubblica (IT)

• 'Pools der welt', Neue Zurcher Zeitung (CH)

• 'See the world through these amazing pools' Slate Magazine (US)

• 'When European tourists and Syrian refugees meet', Slate Magazine (US)

• 'Un lundi a Kaboul par Marieke van der Velden' Paris Match l'Instant (FR)

• ‘Pourquoi les touristes du Golfe vont dans ce coin ‘dAutriche?’, Ouest (FR)

• 'They come from different worlds, but they're neighbors on earth', Upworthy (US)

• 'This is the Afghanistan that never make it to the headlines' Business Insider (US)

• One boy added teeth to his mask..’ The Observer (UK)

• 'Lesbos, Insel der Gegensätze', Frankfurter Allgemeine (GER)

• ‘Briefe von gefluchteten an ihre Kinder’, Tagesspiegel (GER)

• ‘Sei frei und lebe frei’, Der Spiegel (GER)

• 'The Island of All Together', Tages Anzeiger (CH)

• 'Das urlaubs-Mekka', Tages Anzeiger (CH)

• ‘Labirentin Cocuklari’, Atlas Dergisi (TUR)

• 'Humans of Syria', The Week (US)

• 'Faces of the day' Daily Beast (UK)

• 'A Monday in Kabul' Lenscratch (US)

• 'Pique-nique a Kaboul' 6 Mois (FR)

• 'Piscines du Monde' Courrier International (FR)

• 'Кабульные условия' Esquire (RUS)

• 'Daily life in Kabul photographed' Feature shoot (US)

• 'Another Afghanistan' Duckrabbit (UK)

• 'Wat New York voor westerlingen is, is Zell am See voor Arabieren', De Morgen (BE)

• ‘Voil Jeanetten’, De Morgen (BE)

• ‘Swapping sand for snow paradise in alpine Austria’, The National (UAE)

• 'Heel veel oma's', Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• 'Vlucht verhalen', Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• 'Vieze Jeanet viert carnaval', Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Goedemorgen Nederland’, Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Getekend’, Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Een doordeweekse dag in Kabul’, Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Boerka’s in de sneeuw’, Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Op zoek naar de weg uit het doolhof’, Volkskrant Magazine (NL)

• ‘Team insanity to the rescue’, Volkskrant Vonk (NL)

• 'Dit is een doodgewone maandag in Kabul' NRC (NL)

• 'Verrassend Bagdad' NRC (NL)

• 'Zo zie je Bagdad maar zelden' De Correspondent (NL)