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Professional surfer Yannick de Jager signed a contract with a new sponsor Jeep. He asked me to come along to create content for the master of the 4x4 and so I did. We decided to drive to Zeeland which is in the South of the Netherlands and play on the beach while the sun was slowly setting. Yannick had a ball racing around me. And I, I had a great time snapping these gorgeous moments, using a ladder and my Canon camera with 24mm and a 50mm lens.
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Honolua Blomfield’s Hawaiian roots run deep. She started surfing when she was two she claims and now 18 years later she shines as the Women’s World Champion longboard supported by O'Neill. We got in touch via Instagram and asked me if I could take lifestyle shots of her and hang out while being in Ericeira. Surfing wasn’t really an option as the waves were actually bigger than two-story buildings while Nazaré was firing further up north. We did get to see some amazing weaves rolling in and the sun. Hono is so easy and fun to work with, a lovely person and amazing surfer.
Bruce Lee moves in the evening sun. Having the pro’s in town put things in perspective. They make waves I thought were not worth riding look like marvels and drops that I thought were unmakeable they make me think twice. Living this year in Ericeira, Portugal, maybe in the most beautiful coastal town and full of surf, it is famous for her waves and in October 2011 they called it ‘a World Surfing Reserve when this was declared by the international organization Save the Waves Coalition. It was only the 2nd Reserve to be distinguished worldwide and remains the only one in Europe until today. Good waves attract great surfers and when they are around its beautiful to capture their dance.
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Four days of running to capture all the new styles of the 2019 Brooks Running Fall / Winter collection. Hugo Happel the directer picked Portugal as the location which is very convenient living in Ericeira, Portugal. A home game for me and Amy, lovely! The challenge was to capture the running shoes and apparel collection in totally different environments, from steep cliffs to clean architecture and ideal coastal towns. Brooks Running gaves us four days to shoot it with one travel day in between to changes locations between Lisbon and the beautiful island of flowers Madeira.Lots of running so fitness was key, for the crew and mostly for the run models, during a visit to the locations to scout the locations Hugo was ‘test running’ every potential locations, after the first day we decided that we had to take it a little easier as he already had ran 30km. During the shoot days the models ran 15km in average, short sprints and that for 4 days in combination while looking good. Though job and happy to be behing the camera shooting my new Canon 1D mark2, lovely.
Crew: Hugo Happel / 11AM, Ivo de Bruijn, CJ Laros, Annelies Soenen, Amy Cornelius, Nino Kennis.
Location: Portugal: Lisbon and Madeira
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I’ve been working with Joolz for a couple of years now which entails the most thoughtful and comfortable strollers you will ever see. It also entails patience, lots of it with the children who claim eighter more attention or they don’t want any attention from the stranger with the camera, me. Whatever the case is they always get tired and never do what you hoop them to do. Joolz rang me up told me about the new campaign and locations, the told me that we were going a long adventure documenting real families in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, the United States of America, Belgium and Spain. Adventure, yes, please! And just like that a couple of weeks later we took off with a small crew of three meeting them all somewhere on our beautiful globe. I only packed my hand luggage which is a backpack from F-stop containing my Canon 1Dm2, two lenses, laptop, hard drives for backup’s, headphones, card reader, a book of Captain Cook’s 3 voyages and bits and pieces of clothing. The thing I love the most about this project is that we got to hang out with an actual family which hasn’t always been the case and got to hang and took us to there favorite places and the city they know. Strolling with the baby stroller and a newborn usually a couple of months old which means a fresh mum. Other times one or two more kids usually craving for what every they demand. The scene in a nutshell; kids, parents, unfamiliar city, traffic, light situation and constantly changing, other humans around. It is a fun mission, getting the shots. So, fun to shoot and document with of course focus on the new strollers. Being patient is key and connect with the little ones but don't forget the parents and hats off for mothers.
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Even though it is their first issue, they don't like to call this their first issue since Co11ectif is the coming together of the three already established magazines SWELL magazine, SCSMAG, and WOOD. In this semi-first issue, I, Denni van Huis is featured with an interview and some of his lifestyle photography, including five full-page spreads. Collectif is a revelation you can enjoy on paper every 3 months. If you love riding a board and the cultures around it, then your money is safe with them!
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We had selected two adventurous models with experience and two models without to join the Perry fall/winter shoot. With two van’s loaded up with the crew, food and the upcoming winter collection we took off and drove to Austria, an eleven-hour drive through mainly Germany. Perry sells a lot of different brands, and because of this, they want to create their own content to combine brands in one shot and work on their own identity and feel. Fair enough, this is why we were on our way into the Alps. Location scouting is key, after we'd arrived and dropped off our stuff we drove around for a one and a half-day in the area to find different locations for the right setting, the challenge is that Perry sells brands like Nike and Puma where you need often locations where we can train, sport, run with usually clean walls that match the brand's Identity. During the same shoot, we often shoot lifestyle fashion which requires ofter settings and we get to go up the mountains and for snow on the slopes. I know, so many different settings and it isn't always easy to find a location where you can find it all. Parking lots and the area around ski lifts are good for clean lines when being in cute Austrian mountain villages, that where you find more clean spaces and lines, the forest obvious provides for adventure kind of clothing, somewhere on the mountain usually on the south side to meet the sun. Snow is another to solve when its winter it's easy, it is October now which means fingers crossed going up the slopes and pray for a little stubborn patch of snow on the North wall to work with. We have a crew that is so fun to work with which is great during these long days and helpful when you have to shoot at least 35 styles a day in different disciplines, a lot but once you’re on a roll its all good!
Crew: Denni van Huis, Jasper de Kloet, CJ Laros, Marielle van der Munt, Edwin Goudens v/d Handel
Location: Zell am See, Austria
If you love dark and stormy you gotta go. North of Scotland and just south of Iceland you find a group of islands called the Faroe Islands ‘owned’ by the Danish but if you ask me it is a world on its own. Famous for their stubbornness on whaling habits, besides there is why more to these 17 islands floating in the middle of nowhere. It’s simply magical, barren lands, no trees around and so much space. Things have been the way as they’ve always have been when you look at photos and listen to the sounds while we were getting ourselves lost in the surroundings we met a not so happy man with his shepherd dogs. We happen to run over his land, not cool. The words of warnings quickly grew into a good chat and he told me that he is the 16th generation owning the valley and living on it. Things haven't changed much and that's where we came to shoot for Nomad. Martijn Andriessen was in charge of the photography and Hugo Happel and I were the ‘models’. Not bringing a camera wasn’t an option for me. Below some images of our trip and this amazing place.
Crew: Martijn Andriessen, Cj Laros (production), Hugo Happel
Location: Faroe Islands
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A new collection for our brand Alfredo Gonzales means fresh socks. All excited we made our way to London Town to shoot the new campaign. Styling Queen Nancy dragged a couple of bags full of styling essentials along to create the power of styling on the spot. There wasn't much of a plan besides browsing the streets, cause England can get wet Dennis Ebeli came up with the idea to get umbrellas made with the same pattern all the new socks.\
Location: London, UK
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With two campers we drove south to shoot the new campaign for our brand Alfredo Gonzales. On our way to the south of France we picked up someone that would because or now friend, Marissa Papen, who is killing it on Instagram and after we approached her immediately said yes to join a bunch of strangers in campers shooting their new sock collection. Road tripping’ is what we all love and so we blended the passion for the road and called the new campaign “Where is Alfredo”. The search was on to find the Mexican legend and shoot while searching. We heard rumors of him being in Paris and shot the Pencil collection meanwhile. When we got further south we focus on camping, hipster hikes, and surf. Two weeks and a lot of rain that the Basque country needs to feed the amazing green hills. Great vibes together with Ivo de Bruijn we shot the photos (below only my own images), Hugo Happel and Dennis Ebeli focused on the production of the shoot and the Art Direction and made sure we never lacked on coffee and burgers. Road trip video by Off The Richter. Great memories and images. And readers, know that I’m always ready for the road.
Crew: Hugo Happel, Marisa Papen, Tom Munneke, Dennis Ebeli, Denni van Huis, Yannick de Jager, Tim Padmos.
Location: Basque Country
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PONY was born in Manhattan way back in 1972. As a tribute to their New York identity, PONY decided to do a shoe collaboration with the 4th Beasty Boy, and street photographer Rocky Powell. It was Denni's job to follow the legend around London town and Amsterdam making sure he wouldn't miss a moment of Ricky's signature sessions, his photo expositions or the many shoe shop presentations.
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We, 11AM and I spent a crazy week sprinting around Barcelona shooting the 2015 Teva Campaign and filming the RTL4 TV bumpers for the next season of Expeditie Robinson. The shoot was a raging success, we had a great crew, typical sunny Spanish weather and we even managed to avoid the pickpockets. We spent a night in the ultimate treehouse and got to play in the Pyrenees.
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Bliss Magazine by Hanke Arkenbout is a magazine all filled with interviews with photographers from all over the globe and lots of amazing photos. One that will get you inspired once you have reached the first page. In the third issue our Denni van Huis is featured with some of his work and an interesting interview.
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For fairfood chain Marqt we did a activation together the with the "Welcome Neighbour Project Team". To generate more exposure for their bicycle crates client program, we made the Marqt logo from hundreds of bicycle crates and dropped by some cool landmarks of Rotterdam. Bende found a way to keep all the Marqt bicycle crates together on this windy day.
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It was an honour to be asked to take photos for Jamie magazine, the best part about this is that once you've photographed the beautiful food you get to eat it after was Bonus! (we're now a big fan of edible photo shoots) The goal was to take 9 photos of dishes that you could prepare on a camp sight (no canned beans and sausages) it was simple honest food with big flavours. We had dream team on hand who made the shoot a tasty success. Eddy Frings was in charge of set-styling and knew exactly what was needed to create an idyllic camp site setting and Ingmar Niezen's food styling wowed our eyes and our stomachs. Thanks to Diewertje van Wering this delicious spread is now off to the press, we're looking forward to seeing it on paper. Thanks for the behind the scenes photos Diewertje!
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We've been part of the Mystic photo shoots for many years already. After going to Morocco, Spain, Norway and Greece it was time to get more tropical. Virgin Air helped out with tickets and we flew to Saint Lucia, a tropic island in the Caribbean with a Jamaican touch. For this collection we decided to do it all a little different. We came up with a surrealistic scene together with Deepthought Productions. This is the latest campaign Hugo Happel and I created for Mystic, shot on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Our briefing was to create a concept completely different from Mystic's previous campaigns, and decided to put more time and effort in each photo setting, compared to documenting the whole trip like we did on previous shoots.
Mystic is one of the world's most well-known and progressive brands active in kitesurfing and windsurfing. I’ve been working with the brand since 2007 together with Hugo Happel back then under the name 11AM. Our collaboration started with their new website at the time, which turned into keeping the website updated year-round, getting involved in their marketing strategy, setting up and managing their social media channels, creating campaigns and concepts for new collections, and art direction at photoshoots. The projects shown here are Mystic's campaign photo shoots we created and directed over the past few years. On these shoots we always work together with our good friends of Deep Thought Productions.
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HUSK is a travel agency specialised in budget skiing trips for students and groups of young people. Together with our good friend Ivo de Bruijn we were asked to follow different groups of these holiday makers and capture the ultimate HUSK feeling. We got to meet a lot of young happy people, that we followed day in and day out, from the slopes to their apartments to the dance floors, celebrating every minute of their vacation without parents. We were there to capture all those moments in France and Austria on a search for 'The HUSK Feeling' in villages like Val Thorens, Risoul and Joue de Loupe, Saint-Sorlin and St. Francois.
