The Wool Dyer

The wool dyers souk in Marrakech, also called Souk Sebbaghine, this is where wool and fabric are dyed in big metal vats with boiling water. When you get close, you may feel like you’ve just walked into one of the circles of Dante’s inferno! I tried to capture the raw exposure of a man dying wool in steaming hot water as done by generations before him.

I am a self taught photographer inspired by the different places where I grew up . Born in the Netherlands, I moved every three years, and when I was 12 years old, I lived on Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean, where I bought my first camera and from that time on photography has always been a part of me. I try to take photographs that call attention to daily things that other people overlook; my goal is to share my ‘eye’ and to show how everything we take for granted can actually become exceptional, which elevates the spirit, emotion, and thought. In 2004 I moved to Kingston, Canada.