SHORT BIO | I studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy and The Emily Carr University of Art and Design, but really, my education started much earlier, at home, with my father, who is also a photographer. Over the past twenty years, I’ve gained a wide range of experience working all over the world, enough to call myself all-round or somewhat confusingly versatile. What makes me happiest is creating stylistic portraits on location and documentary photography. In my free time, I also love to wander the streets with my camera and overly critical, maybe even mildly obsessive, nitpick compositions.

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​Since making my first documentary, Freedom Ahead, and later Seeds of Permaculture, I’ve found myself dreaming not just of images, but also of trees, homegrown vegetables, and rainwater harvesting. A life where creativity, craft and nature meet in the everyday. Buying a plot of land and becoming more self-sufficient became part of what it means to me to live as an independent creative. Rediscovering old Moorish irrigation channels and watching a once dry piece of land burst into bloom, has become a quiet kind of joy. One I’d love to share with others, through the creation of a kind of ‘Third Place’, a space in real nature where people can slow down, reorient, and spark new ideas. But most of all, a place to refocus. Something I suspect many of us are quietly craving more and more.

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You can also visit studioloerijzer for more work!

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Cheers!