When my family moved to the Netherlands in 2020, I found myself wanting to photograph my new home — but not in any way that had already been done. The tulip fields, the North Sea, the dunes, the parks and waterways of Amsterdam: these are among the most photographed places on earth, their images so familiar they have almost stopped being seen. I wanted to find the beauty I was actually experiencing — the color, the light, the particular atmosphere of this flat, luminous country — without repeating pictures that already exist by the millions.
Dutch Colors is what came out of that search. These are the places I was falling in love with, seen the way I was falling in love with them: not as postcard subjects but as pure sensation. A tulip field as a wall of red. The North Sea as a band of fading warmth. The dunes behind Zandvoort as something between land and sky that has no name yet. Vondelpark after rain as simply, essentially, green.
The Netherlands gave my family a new life. These images are my attempt to give it something back — a portrait made not from the outside looking in, but from someone who arrived and stayed and started to belong.
