He calls himself “The Goldzuuker”. Next to my house, along the banks of the river the IJssel, I came across him, searching with a special detector. This Gold Digger collects treasures from ancient times, he has answers, has evidence, and fished everything from the river IJssel that I look forward to every day. When I’am at his house I can admire his complete collection. There are objects from the year 1300. (Did people really live here then? ) The man shows me his treasures and his eyes start to shine, a spoon, a drinking cup, marbles, vases, innocent objects with …

This story is about Jo Snoep (1903-1944) resistance fighter in the Second World War. Photographer Ursula van de Bunte was asked by the Foundation “Stumbling Stones in Music” to make an image to accompany the story of the stone “De La Sablonierekade 5 in Kampen. She was captivated by the story and made an associative photo series about this unresolved ending. The article by journalist Herman Broers was leading in this. It is about the unsolved death of Leo Snoep, who was forced to go to the office of the German commander, partly due to the actions of the NSB …

“Save what you do not want to lose”, that is the core of this series. Paul Rooyackers, my friend, is 20 years older. Probably he will die sooner than me. In order to keep the memory of him alive, I now capture him in portraits. In the series, classical, photographic interpretations alternate with ironically sought-after views or sometimes with a nod to iconic paintings. Making these portraits has become my life’s work and will most likely only stop when Paul really will not be there anymore.

There is a house in Elburg from 1635. It has been empty for fifteen years. The building appealed to my imagination. What happened here? Which children have all lived here? Are these souls still wandering through the house? A family with three children has bought the property. They now live in the attic and are slowly renovating. The three girls call themselves : “the spirits of the house”.

In 2019 I walked past an authentic and empty house on the IJssel; De La Sablionierekade 3 in Kampen. It was for sale, and once inside, it seemed as if time had stood still. The house was for sale for a long time and deserved a resident who saw its beauty. The then owner gave me the key to make a photographic series in the building. During the “Open House days” in 2019 there were two exhibitions in the house, hundreds of visitors walked through the building in amazement, but no one bought it. In January 2020 I unexpectedly became …

The series “PANDEMIC” came about with a subsidy from the Municipality of Kampen. This subsidy was intended to link two concepts: Corona and Kampen. Photographer Ursula van de Bunte took this series of photos in the Boven- en Buitenkerk van Kampen. “When I tell people that I live in Kampen, I often get the response: but isn’t that very ecclesiastical? Indeed, there are as many as 39 churches here. Despite the many churches, Kampen has a very free and artistic atmosphere, also because an art academy used to be located and many “free birds” and artists have remained hedges. Faith …

For all kinds of reasons, do not feel like eating

  The Pudding become a part of the body

My starting point for this series was the relationship between the sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel and the fierce outcome of this. The vulnerability of the woman in the face of an overwhelming, brutal man. The pudding I use as a metaphor for the fragile female body. A pudding is soft, fragile, touchable / palpable. This also applies to a fragile female body. Pudding is fragile, vulnerable. The human body is, as is the pudding bounded by a nearly invisible sleeve, in a human is that the skin that is pliable after a period of time, and more and …