Looking closer at life before it disappears around the corner
recognition and narrative, toward subtle emotions, fragile truths, and fleeting human presence that often vanish before they are consciously noticed or understood.
Double Recognition ·
Street Photography Award
This series received double recognition at the Street Photo Award, acknowledging both vision and execution. An affirmation of observing patiently, trusting intuition, and revealing human stories that quietly unfold between intention and chance on the street.
Fields of Observation
A curated selection of work where streets, faces, and ideas converge. Each series reflects a way of seeing, driven by curiosity, intuition, and the search for meaning before moments slip quietly out of sight.
Street Photography
Moments caught between intention and chance. I observe quietly, letting life unfold, revealing subtle gestures, quiet tensions, and human stories hidden within the street’s everyday rhythm and presence.
Portrait Photography
Portraits that look past appearance. Through stillness, light, and presence, I seek the emotional layer beneath the face, where vulnerability, strength, doubt, and joy quietly coexist.
Urbex Photography
Exploring abandoned spaces where time stands still, transforming forgotten architecture into visual narratives about decay, memory, and human presence through silence, texture, and atmosphere.
“The camera notices what the world forgets to look at, preserving fragile moments before they vanish unnoticed into everyday noise.”
Patrick Nijhuis
Photographer
View, read, listen.
Recieve occasional notes
A quiet newsletter with thoughts, new work, and small stories from behind the lens. Just honest updates, now and then, like a postcard from the street.
No algorithms, no noise, no commercial nonsense.