Since I started to sing professionally and travel to exotic concert locations, I have always made reportages of rehearsals and the venues and surroundings. Being a musician, I have always been fascinated by the pure emotion and expression when making music and have tried to capture these in the images I was fortunate to be able to take, being so close to my colleagues. That proximity has allowed me to take more intimate pictures than many a weathered reportage photographer, and has taught me to wait for the right moment. I hope and think that my fellow musicians, having seen me with a camera so often, did not let their musical concentration and expression be disturbed by my presence. Of course there have regularly been moments when I had to rush back to my place on the stage when the ensemble had to start singing again. I always like to share the reportages I make when in a production with my fellow musicians but I also love to make (paid) reportages as just a photographer. I remember making action portraits for De Nederlandse Bachvereniging of guest conductor Konrad Junghänel during a concert of the St. Matthew's Passion by J.S. Bach, hidden for the audience, between the two parts of the stage for the double choir. I see a reportage as a work of art, not an inventory of all musicians on stage. I am always looking for the expression and emotion of the instrumentalist, singer or conductor, in a setting, a venue, or in musical dialogue. The out of focus part is integral to the image and can enhance the subject and lead the eye to it.
Contact me if you would like me to photograph your musical production.
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