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In The Dream Vehicle, we embark on a road trip across the Benelux in a classic Volvo that we bought for the trip.  The road trip, our metaphor for the journey through life, shows us in a poetic, introspective study on time and love. Where daily events are stylized into visual contemplations, where we face each other’s longings and fears and translate them into dreamlike stories. The Dream Vehicle is a collective name for the various vehicles that play a role in the […]

Something that haunted us a bit in the early days of the project, was how to find a book publisher or even how to self-publish once we finished the book. We always believed that we had to take care of the imagery and lyrics first, before we could even consider a next step. Our photographic language grew and with every mile through the Benelux we got more familiar with our actual purpose. We are enormously happy and proud to announce that after we got the attention of managing […]

After some great meetings with Dutch documentary photographer Jeroen Toirkens last year on how to manage the process of making a photobook, we arrived at a new stage in our journey. While we kept on shooting and writing, we pursued a search for the right designer to come on board with us to design the book. We’re pleased to let you know that The Dream Vehicle photobook will be designed by acclaimed Dutch designer Sybren Kuiper, with whom we sat down last Christmas […]

In the winter of 2021, Anna was selected to participate in the Annual Photo Biennale of Gallery FotoNostrum in Barcelona.    After visiting the grand opening, she was also invited for an in-depth interview and presentation in the International FotoNostrum Magazine #22, which shows an artfully designed intersection of contemporary photography from internationally acclaimed image makers.   Along the 14 pages of content on Anna’s photo career, motives and working process, room was reserved to highlight The Dream Vehicle as her […]

A sign of the times? Again? The nude image, rising in fine arts. Is it censored? Do we have to look at nude images? What is the motive to show naked bodies in fine arts? As people ask us, why we would pose in the nude for our photography, we feel that when you want to perform something creative, something to express feelings, it’s very natural to turn to your own body. To know its force. As without clothing you […]

From November 26 until December 24, WM Gallery in Amsterdam presents a group exhibition titled ‘Searching for the Soul of the Service Station’. The exhibition looks at Service-Stations highlighting their different aspects, past, present and (uncertain?) future, through a collection of photos and paintings mainly from the WM Gallery’s private collection. ‘A cocktail of nostalgia, history, aesthetics, romanticism, social aspects, business, realism, and a pinch of humour.’ WitkowskaVerbunt will be participating with an image, shot during one of the The […]

‘In an essayistic way of photographing, photographing is part of the research process’, writes journalist and photocoach Diana Bokje in her freshly launched education book ‘Van Maken Tot Raken‘. ‘You have a certain idea about your subject in advance and you form your opinion about it while shooting. It is also a way of seeking confirmation. Of your world view; testing your reality against that of others (…)’. In ‘Van Maken Tot Raken’, Diana takes the reader through a series […]

‘De liefde blijft een magisch mysterie en iedereen kan daar een eigen draai aan geven. De vragen zijn universeel, de antwoorden persoonlijk.’   Creative director Robert Theunissen shone a wonderful light on our journey ‘The Dream Vehicle’ in his in-depth interview, published on VéloVolant. Read it here (in Dutch)

A few years back, Rob saw a self-portrait of me and in his head, the thought of possible collaboration was born. A sudden recognition of similar emotion and atmosphere in my photography made him curious and lit. “As if there was someone doing exactly the same thing, but in a female form” he recalled. As I love creative collaboration and mirroring ideas, I jumped into his idea of collaborating with no hesitation. With no expectation and no specific subject at […]

This month, June 2021, we are heading South, to the Belgian-French border, to start our anticipated documentary on The Dream Vehicle. As we started out photographing for the project on the brink of 2019, shedding light on personal topics about our time and place in the world, about loss and the human drive, we kept on deepening our concept and looked into additional ways of communicating the story. So, after we started to combine poetry and prose with our photographic […]