Born in Amsterdam, Holland, raised in Los Angeles, California. At 22 returns to Amsterdam where he studies ceramics at the Rietveld Academy. After his diploma, goes to Italy for the first time and works as a designer of industrial ceramics, collaborating, among others, with Mario Bellini for Richard Ginori and with Ambrogio Pozzi and Joe Colombo for an on board table wear for Alitalia. Three years later returning to Amsterdam he works as a sculptor and also teaches industrial ceramics at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven. Collaboration with a Dutch photographer ignites a curiosity when introduced to the creative world of fashion. Once again returns to Milan were life takes on a new form of expression through fashion photography and personal photographic research.