I always loved going to shows and the idea of combining photography – my second passion - with music sounded like the best way to have a lots of fun, meet some cool people and travel around the world. In the late 70ties, I was going to a lot of shows and started to bring my camera, so I built my portfolio mostly with photographs of local bands. Those photos got me my first published work in some Belgian and Dutch hardrock/metal magazines. The first "big" band I shot was Van Halen and from that moment I made up my mind : "this is the thing I want to do" !

In 1983, things started to evolve : Mausoleum Records asked me if they could use my pix for the artwork of "If It’s Loud, We’re Proud", a compilation featuring Ostrogoth, Crossfire and Killer. A couple months later, Killer asked me to join them on their UK tour to make some snapshots. Those pix ended up in Joepie, at that time the biggest teen magazine in Belgium. Working for this magazine opened more doors and later that year I became Festival Photographer of the legendary Heavy Sound Festival (83-84-85). Some bands who played the festival were Metallica, Slayer (first show ever outside the US), Mercyful Fate and Twisted Sister.

More and more magazines picked up my photos and over the years I’ve been able to publish photos in a lot of publications like Aardschok, Rock Tribune, Terrorizer, Rock Hard, Metalhammer, Metal Edge to name a few.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet and get support from a lot of people and bands and so far I’ve managed to get my photos on several CD/DVD covers, by bands like Shelter, Madball, Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All, Sengir, Discipline, Rykers, HateSphere, Nuclear Assault, Convict, Doro, Slapshot, Liar, Angel Crew, Deviate, Seven Witches, Agent Steel, Bleeding Through, Maroon, Autumn, Cyclone, Ignite, Nailpin, Epica, Dimmu Borgir, Lacuna Coil, Unearth, Obituary, Kamelot ...

I spend my time doing photo shoots for record companies , magazines, bands... On top of that I get to see and shoot tons of shows.... And here I am right now, more than 30 years later, still enjoying my hobby like there is no tomorrow and getting excited everytime I’m at a gig, festival or photoshoot !

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