As a photographer, she is drawn to family relationships – past, present and future – exploring how people connect or drift apart. Her work examines the emotional dynamics that shape intimacy, distance and belonging.

She finds inspiration in 17th-century Dutch painters such as Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer and Gerard Dou. Their mastery of light, composition and everyday symbolism strongly influences her staged photographs, which translate this historical visual language into contemporary scenes that reveal the quiet dramas of modern life.

Her series are connected by recurring themes of dysfunction, memory and heritage. Growing up in a chaotic family first inspired her to create her own version of a “Jan Steen household”, and the tension between chaos and control continues to resurface throughout her work. In her recent project My Dearest Teun, she reflects on her grandmother’s time in a Japanese internment camp in the former Dutch East Indies. By re-enacting fragments of her life, she explores how personal and colonial histories intertwine, and how memory can be both intimate and collective.

She has been working professionally in the Netherlands since 2015, developing a distinct visual language rooted in narrative staging. Although her career gained strong momentum upon graduation and she has maintained a consistent presence in the field, she is now seeking to expand internationally and gain greater direction and visibility for her practice.