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iconic imagery
top sellers & award winners
Get to know some of my most popular works and the stories behind them. All these images have received international recognition through awards, publications, and exhibitions. They are available in different editions, from open to limited and fine art.
To learn more about the different edition types, have a look at the FAQ page or get in touch with any questions you might have via the contact page.
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meet the icon of AI resistance
F L A M I N G O N E
"Photographer takes on the machines – and wins"
"in equal measure absurd and lifelike — so mind-bending"
"human-generated art hasn’t lost its impact in a world of algorithms"
We’ve all seen a flamingo, but have you ever seen a flamingone? Only an AI could make that up. Or did I just make that up?
Get to know the unlikely creature that is turning heads all over the world, and the story of how nature beat the machine. After winning two awards in the AI category of the prestigious 1839 photo competition, F L A M I N G O N E sparked a global public debate when I revealed that it is a real photograph. The idea was to show the continued relevance of a human touch in translating the real world into creatively and emotionally relevant languages, and to magnify the blurred line between photography and AI-imagery. While the fact that F L A M I N G O N E could fool a jury of industry experts – including members of the New York Times, Phaidon Press, Getty Images, Centre Pompidou, and Christie’s – speaks to the dangers of fake imagery, the people’s choice award seems like a message of hope: the only real picture in the AI category resonated more with the public than any of the AI-images it competed against. Apparently, we remain connected to the natural world as long as our feelings are still rooted there. With AI-generated content remodelling the digital landscape rapidly while sparking an ever-fiercer debate about its implications for the future of content, its creators, and its consumers, F L A M I N G O N E proved that human-made content has not lost its relevance, that Mother Nature and her human interpreters can still beat the machine, and that creativity and emotion are more than just a string of digits. F L A M I N G O N E has been featured in hundreds of international publications and exhibitions around the world.
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F L A M I N G O N E' s cousin
S E L F I E N D
The day I shot F L A M I N G O N E, I'd set out at 5am to beat the crowds to a Caribbean beach with free-roaming flamingos. And while my alone-moment with F L A M I N G O N E became one for the (art-history) books, I also got a great shot with a selfie human later that day. S E L F I E N D has received honors from 35 Awards (street photography) and KAAF (black and white), and has been featured in various exhibitions as well as publications such as FLAASH Magazine and Digital Photographer.
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an ode to youth and love and stuff
SILLY LOVE
In 2023, my photo HOLI FACE ended up among the winners of the CEWE Award, the world’s largest photo contest. In the runup to 2024’s award, CEWE reached out to me because another entry of mine, SILLY LOVE, had caught their eye. The humbling offer: to be the representative of their new Young Talent Award! Check out my tips for aspiring photographers, featured on the contest's website here.
SILLY LOVE is a candid scene I happened upon when roaming Venice's colorful Burano island. A nearby bridge offered a slightly elevated vantage point to capture the scene from an angle that decreased the proximity to the subjects to not invade or interrupt their publicly intimate interaction.
SILLY LOVE has received distinctions from Great Photo Awards and Urban Photo Awards, and has been featured in various solo and group shows, among which an exhibition at Trieste Airport.
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one of those moments
swing state
In 2018, National Geographic editors selected my photo as a finalist for a Nat Geo Traveler cover. It was a great honor to see my work stand out from over 20,000 submissions.
The picture shows my friend Becca swinging in front of Ecuador's active Tungurahua volcano. Nowadays, the swing is equipped with a harness and other safety measure, but back in 2012 when I took that shot, it was truly a swing for the daring, who would stare at an unforgiving abyss below.
The image is featured in my 2024 limited collection I'm 12 now.
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home is where the home is
ALL WAS FEEL
I stumbled into this fairytale at just the right time, with the late autumn sun setting on this half-timbered, half-fairydust home in Normandy. I’d taken a few pictures from afar to put the house in the context of its surroundings just to find that its essence could only be captured from up close, detached from space and time. It was all feel, and it didn’t feel real. ALL WAS FEEL has been featured by Smithsonian Magazine in 2024.
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beating the sun to the summit
coexistence contrast
Standing tall at 1,000 feet, Big Daddy is a massive dune in the Namib desert. The only way to conquer it without dying a thousand deaths (one per foot) is to get a 4 am head start and beat the sun to the summit. It was worth every step though, seeing my picture recognized alongside some of the world’s finest landscape photography as a finalist at the Nature Conservancy photo competition in 2023.
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an iconic dreamscape
AUTUMN IN SPRING
I don’t know whether it was bad luck that Patagonia’s iconic Mt. Fitzroy was shrouded in a thick cloud cover for most of that hike, or whether it was fantastic luck to stumble upon that blue window, but certainly the timing couldn’t have been better. AUTUMN IN SPRING has been selected as a finalist at the Great Photo Awards 2024, and has been featured in various exhibitions.
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from another world, before ours
iron age stone
It’s hard to tell where a non-fictional plot starts and ends, but I want to say that this one started with a perplexed elephant in Botswana, continued with jumping out of a burning car in the Namib desert, and ended with a waterfall wedding in Zimbabwe, and everything that happened before and after was a different story. As part of the wedding celebrations, we visited the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, an ancient city of an ancient kingdom where ancient architecture was in future-ready symbiosis with nature. My shot “iron age stone” has been a finalist at the 2024 SUGI x NAVA photography award, which is a great honor given how much I admire SUGi’s mission of greening cities and NAVA’s vision of making art more accessible.
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lucky shot
a shot 4,500 years in the making
There are many fantastic vantage points to capture the pyramids, but to have a little boy walk into your frame and throw a rock at these marvels of civilization, is something that only happens once every 4,500 years. After walking around the Giza plateau all day, I was lucky to be at the intersection of right place and right time to capture this candid shot from a little-visited lookout point far out. It also offered a telling view that put the proximity of these ancient monuments and today’s urban sprawl into tangible perspective. This lucky and literal shot has been awarded as a winner by the Archaeological Institute of America and was featured in the institute’s calendar and various exhibitions around the world.
