Maarten van der Voorde

Everyone is surrounded by “stories”. When we look back, the moment has already disappeared and only the joy, emotion, experience and tension remains as a memory. With my photography I want to capture that one moment and thus tell the story again. Keep the memory and show the emotion of the moment. Looking at the photo’s should provide a re-experience, bring you back to that one moment or let it experience, take you into the “adventure”. And so I am, with great pleasure, a modern “time traveler”.

I feel like a privileged person. I can travel the world to beautiful destinations, meet beautiful and special people, experience nature and cultures and experience beautiful adventures. Commissioned or as free work.

But I always try to be aware of where I am, how special that place and the moment are. I want to record that in my way. So that I can share my “moments” with the viewer and tell the story.
My camera is my passport to events, my “time machine”. People in their daily situations and/or professions are more and more the subjects of my photography. To tell their story with my camera, who they are and what they do, what is their experience, skills and/or emotions.

I portray reality. Not to shock, but to make the viewer (more) aware and perhaps bring about a change. From nature to technology, from action to portrait, commissioned or free work, from wedding to funeral, far away or very close, but always with a lot of passion and pleasure!

I once started with an analog camera with a 50mm lens in 1976, later I switched to digital, eventually with full-frame cameras with corresponding bright lenses.

A few years ago, I discovered the FUJIFILM X Series cameras and lenses and was immediately impressed by the quality, but especially the way you can work with this equipment. This changed my view on, but also my style of photography. For me this meant the switch to FUJIFILM in 2016.

But my passion for photography, feeling and my eyes are my most important tools.

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