About me

I’m Quinten, and I’ve been looking up all my life. Always searching for new images: striking shapes, dramatic cloud formations, and details of buildings most people never notice. I was born in Edam, a town best known for its cheese. As a child, I would spend hours lying on my back in the grass, staring at the clouds. There wasn’t much else to see, the buildings in Edam are fairly low. But during family holidays in Southern Europe, I was inspired by the beautiful façades rising against deep blue skies. With disposable cameras, I took my very first photographs. It was extra exciting because back then you had to wait a whole week after returning home to see the results at the local photo shop.

Over the years, I refined my eye and upgraded my cameras. Everyone knew that my holiday photos were always filled with upward-looking shots, blue skies, and striking buildings.

After buying my first DSLR, I began going out on my own to find places that lent themselves to good look-up photography. Still mostly distinctive architecture set against a clear blue sky. Ideally at golden hour, when the light creates strong shadows and perfect contrast between architectural lines and sky.

My fascination with buildings started early. I once wanted to become an architect, but when the time came, I chose to study marketing and communications instead. Still, the play of lines never stopped captivating me, and I kept developing my way of seeing. Everywhere I go, I’m looking up and taking photographs. Luckily, today’s mobile phones can capture excellent images, because I don’t always carry my camera with me.

I enjoy seeing my own artistic development over time. It all started with look-ups of buildings, in which the structure itself still played a very dominant role. Nowadays, I often use only fragments of a building, primarily to create new abstractions. In those cases, it’s no longer about the beauty of the architecture itself, but about how it serves as a tool for me to make my own work. Steel, glass, concrete, sharp modern lines, or the interplay between old and new. These are the elements I immediately want to work with, always in combination with a specific light and the moment of the day. Of course, I still often find myself completely captivated by the buildings themselves, and then I create a classic look-up, just as I always have.

Whenever I’m in a place, I quickly sense whether the surroundings lend themselves to a good photo. When that happens, everything else has to wait until I’ve captured the right shot. Sometimes to the annoyance of whoever I’m with, but they know me by now ;)

By staying sharp, open to beauty, and curious about change, I’ve expanded my work, and I’ll continue to do so. Sometimes I even capture images that don’t quite fit my style, but that doesn’t matter. If they bring me joy and allow me to inspire others, then I’ve achieved my goal.

That feeling of having created a truly striking image, it feels like a gift. And I hope my work conveys that same sense of positivity.

About my work

"My photography stems from a simple conviction: the world looks different once you learn how to see. What may seem self-evident or go unnoticed by others can become the foundation of a new work for me. For more than twenty years, I have explored how the everyday transforms when viewed from a different perspective.

In my work, I search for abstraction within what already exists. The lines and forms of architecture, the play of light and shadow, reflections in glass, the intensity of a clear blue sky, and of course the wonder of the golden hour. They all serve as the building blocks of my images. Without manipulation or digital alteration, captured exactly as it was, these fragments of reality take on a new meaning. A façade becomes a composition, a shadow becomes a sculpture, and the sky turns into a new canvas.

My photography constantly balances between recognition and estrangement. Within this tension, I invite the viewer to look again, with the same openness and wonder with which children perceive the world. Without judgment, without assumptions, and with curiosity.

To provide some structure, I have created several collections. These reflect how, by continuously observing and experimenting, I have shaped my own visual language: minimalist, aesthetic, yet layered and poetic. My photography resonates both in private collections and corporate environments. In modern as well as classical interiors, it offers not only aesthetic value but also an invitation to reflect and to see in new ways.

My goal is to share this perspective and to give my work a place within a gallery that recognizes and amplifies my vision."