Maarten de Kok

I have been captured by photography since I was a child leaving in the countryside (Drente). My first pictures focused on people around me, just daily life shoots in the farm house. During the Academia my interest started focusing mostly on East Europe, one of my frist story was related to the flooding of a small town in Romania. After graduating as documentary photographer at the Academia Minerva (Groningen NL) I have immediately started my own company as freelance photographer. By that time my interests towards East Europe grow even more and brought me to travel several times to Ukraine and Bulgaria. During these years I was mostly interested in showing with my series the happening of facts. Recently my work has developed in more conceptual way and I am busy finding a way to tell stories of single people, focusing on details rather than events.