I’m a professional photographer and I have been training in various styles of Martial Arts for about 16 years. My journey started with Shotokan Karate but I currently train Shaolin Kung Fu (Liu He / Zi Ran Men), Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Silat Domas. “Martial Arts Photography” kind of […]
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Visual communication is older than cave drawing and the brain understands images instantly. For example a baby understands the image of its mother long before it learns the word mother. Research has shown that the brain processes images 60’000x faster than text! It’s a question of speed – our brain […]
Images have a direct impact on our emotional response and it is important to realize that each and everyone of us can have a very different emotional response to the same picture. The response is linked to our inner dialogue, our past, present and how we perceive the world and […]
Whatever you put on your website or social media – you will only succeed and get interaction if the content is of high quality, relevant and interesting to your audience. It has to have a purpose! That’s the rule for both text and visuals. This is why it is imperative […]
The greatest content is lost if you don’t aim it at the right people – those who are interested in it. You need to know who you are talking to and how to talk to them. There is a lot of information on demographics and psychographics, how to analyze […]
Your visual identity is the feel and look that people perceive through your visual communication on all platforms. This means that you need consistency across all platforms from web to the uniforms your staff wears. Visual identity is a very broad topic but here are the few bullet points I […]
When I look back at the warriors I have already shot, I see an amazing journey. My photography has become much more grounded. And so have I. I’ve had quite a tough and turbulent last 12 months in pretty much every aspect of life but now I am determined, positive, […]
When we think of the Maori, most of us instantly have the “Haka” in mind, a group of bare chested, stomping, chest thumping, chanting and quite intimidating men covered in Ta Moko (Maori tattoo). So when I decided to visit New Zealand I instantly thought that this would be a […]
20.4.2014 Today starts with my warrior shoot with Jade in his warrior outfit. We head down to the beach and find this really cool driftwood log and shoot away while he tells me about himself (that part will be featured in the “Warriors Book” once published!). Back at camp I […]
19.4.2014 I wake up to sunshine! The first sunshine since I arrived on this island….! I arrive at the camp around 9am. The boys are already out and about training. Today they are all wearing their “official” t-shirts. It is the 25th anniversary of this wananga and today they are […]