He studied at the Vrije Academie and the Fotoschool in the Hague. In 1992 he was awarded the prestigious Rijksmuseum-NRC assignment, together with his colleague Luuk Kramer, to document the company culture in the Netherlands, a project which resulted in a book and a solo exhibition in the Rijksmuseum. In 2002 his project Matti, about the new generation of students in the outskirts of Amsterdam, generated much discussion and the resulting book, designed by René Put, won the best-book award the following year.