Somehow I am not completely at ease with calling myself a photographer. Instead I describe myself as someone doing things with photographs. I make them, collect them, look at them, think and write about them. Sometimes I make the results of this visible for the rest of the world online, in books or in exhibitions. All of this is aimed at telling relevant stories about the way we deal with the world, while it is also a continuing research into how we represent ourselves and that same world in photographs.
The work I do at the moment focuses on urban areas in transition (in Nigeria, Uganda, the US and the Netherlands), and on the production of alternative versions of the representation of Ugandan history. In the projects that involve portraiture, like the one in this exhibit, I try to give as much agency to the people I photograph as possible. They should be in control of their image, I am the person facilitating that. I am aware that there will always be a power issue involved when photographing people, but I try to be present first as a person, and only secondary as a photographer.
Sometimes I experiment with the limitations in representing time and place by combining photographs into multipanel images in an attempt to do justice to the reality depicted.
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