“uit de oude doos” is a dutch expression which means things from the past.
In this category I want to show photos I made some years ago.

This series is not that old but I never posted it on my blog or website so here it is:

Steven & Mendhi – Photos for their wedding invitation booklet. (March 2011)

3 months later at the wedding. Have you ever seen the bride crowd-surfing and the groom taking the expression “broek uit op je hoofd” (pants off, on your head) too seriously? :P

Family fotoshoot in the lovely autumn light

The Viewbook Photostory is an international competition that focuses on the narrative aspects of the photographic art form.
On the website you can see several submissions of small stories.

Some of my favourites are displayed below. I will just post one photo and the title because I think you should see and read the story yourself on the Viewbook website, because there they form a whole and gives more impact than on this weblog.

One by Luca Spano

What Remains by Naman Protick Sarker

The Story of One Man by Maxim Dondyuk

Flyhouse by Christopher Moon

Portraits of a Tornado Path by Mathieu Asselin

Distant and Close by Alla Mirovskaya

Losing Ground by Matt Kay

Hulk’s Toys by Tommaso Barsali

Last summer I went to Berlin for a week where I visited lots of interesting locations including the abandoned amusement park Spreepark. The park, then called “Kulturpark Plänterwald”, was opened in 1969 because east Germany wanted to have an amusement park just like the west (there they had Phantasialand in Brühl). The park had a lot of visitors, around 1.5 million, but then all changed in 1999 when they got into a quarrel with the local government about the size of the park, the parking space and the busy roads because of the park. In 2001 the park only had 400.000 visitors and shortly afterwards closed down because it went bankrupt. The owner of the park tried to ship 6 attractions to Lima for “repairs” but in reality he hid 180 kg of cocaine in the attractions and he was arrested. The park closed down and was abandoned since 2002. The German bank sold half of the attractions but the remaining attractions are still there and are now being taken over by nature.

You can’t just walk into the park to have a look because security is guarding the place, but because of all the people that were illegally trying to get in they’ve now arranged some ways to get into the park. One of the old train attractions is working again and for a few euros you can take a ride around the park. Another way to get in is to go an organized tour, that’s what we did. The tour was in German and the guy was speaking very fast so I didn’t understand a lot of it.. But that was not really a problem because the main reason we want to get in was to see the place and make photos. It was a really spooky place. Apart from the group we were in it was very quiet with in the background a screeching noise of the old ferris wheel which was pushed around by the wind. I made a short movie of it, you can view it here.

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Halloween @ De Bakkerij, Castricum
More photos can be seen here.