I am researcher, writer, translator, visual artist, photography historian, photo pirate, cultural detective, and whatnot.
After studying visual arts at two Dutch academies, Kampen (1996-1998) and Maastricht (1998-2000), I gave up the prospects of a career as a painter and started working as freelance documentary and portrait photographer. Fascination for the world of photography led to a gradual shift towards taking less and less pictures, and going deeper into historical and theoretical aspects of the medium and its wider social impacts.
September 2007 I graduated from the MA Photographic Studies (Leiden University, The Netherlands) with a thesis on phototheoretical issues related to anthropology and visual repatriation.
I am, for the most part, residing in Brooklyn, NY and Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Occasionally I can also be found in Amsterdam, Brussels, Varsseveld, and Berlin.
More info:
thb[at]paradox[dot]nl
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