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  1. Theater technician Frans van Rijn.

    Joris Kijkt: Frans van Rijn

    Posted December 21, 2011. Filed under: People, Photography. Leave a comment.

    For my monthly feature in Universiteitskrant Groningen I like to try and find a subject whose job is often overlooked and put this person in the spotlight. This month, that is literally what I got the chance to do with theater technician Frans van Rijn. Frans worked in the OUTheater since its inception 22 years [...]

  2. Jan Huizing, Beadle of the University of Groningen, in the Senate Chamber.

    Joris Kijkt: Jan Huizing

    Posted December 21, 2011. Filed under: People, Photography. Leave a comment.

    For the third installment of ‘Joris Kijkt‘ in Universiteitskrant Groningen, I photographed beadle Jan Huizing. Jan Huizing has guarded over the university since 1980. He started working as a security guard and saw many incidents during those years. Recently he caught two burglars hiding in a toilet. “When I started working there was still respect [...]

  3. Joris Kijkt: Maarten Loonen

    Joris Kijkt: Maarten Loonen

    Posted October 7, 2011. Filed under: Biology, News, People, Photography, Research, Underwater. Leave a comment.

    This is the second installment of ‘Joris Kijkt‘ in Universiteitskrant Groningen, featuring biologist Maarten Loonen. Maarten studies barnacle geese and spends several months a year on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen for his field work. Since a quick round-trip to the Arctic didn’t quite, erhm… fit the budget, I photographed him while practicing another passion [...]

  4. Joris Kijkt: Jordan van der Ziel

    Joris Kijkt: Jordan van der Ziel

    Posted September 13, 2011. Filed under: News, People, Photography. Leave a comment.

    As of this week I have a returning section in Universiteitskrant Groningen called ‘Joris Kijkt’ (which translates to something like ‘Joris Sees’), for which I portray employees of the University of Groningen. The first installment features Jordan van der Ziel, who is a facility manager and oversees mechanical engineering projects:

  5. Russell Lande

    Russell Lande Receives the Balzan Prize

    Posted September 5, 2011. Filed under: Biology, Conservation, People, Photography, Research. One comment.

    The International Balzan Prize Foundation just announced that the Prize for Theoretical Biology goes to Russell Lande. Russ is one of the most influential biologists of our time. He has been at the forefront of population genetics and evolutionary theory research. He was also instrumental in the conservation effort to get the northern spotted owl [...]

  6. Ibiza Wall Lizard

    Formentera

    Posted May 12, 2011. Filed under: Biology, People, Photography, Underwater. 5 comments.

    For the past four days, Nate and I have been working like crazy on our film about lizards of the Mediterranean islands. We’ve witnessed and filmed some truly spectacular lizard behavior. Today was our last day of filming and we now have many hours of footage to edit. Despite our busy filming schedule I did [...]

  7. Roodkapje en de Wolf

    Little Red Riding Hood

    Posted January 26, 2011. Filed under: People, Photography. 3 comments.

    Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf have left the forest, said goodbye to grandmother, and squatted a little property. Now they live together. But is this real love? Or is it only lust? Platform Broed commissioned me to shoot their new theater show Roodkapje en de Wolf (‘Little Red Riding Hood’). It was created [...]

  8. Blaudzun at Eurosonic 2011

    Blaudzun and Other Highlights from Eurosonic 2011

    Posted January 16, 2011. Filed under: People, Photography. Leave a comment.

    Groningen often feels a little disconnected from the rest of the Netherlands, but for a few days every year my hometown becomes the musical centre of Europe for the largest showcase festival on the continent: Eurosonic. It also sets the stage for the Lex van Rossen Award for European music photography and the Popview photo [...]

  9. Sabine Meijwaard

    Sabine

    Posted December 22, 2010. Filed under: People, Photography. 4 comments.

  10. Hans Hannemann playing the harmonica in the snow

    Lone Rider in the Snow

    Posted November 26, 2010. Filed under: People, Photography. One comment.

    Winter has arrived early again—Groningen awoke to streets covered in snow this morning. I’m taking the opportunity to post several photos from around this time last year of Hans Hannemann (of Hans Hannemann & the Lone Riders) playing the harmonica. Somehow they never made it onto the old blog. It had been snowing for weeks [...]

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Joris van Alphen

Joris van Alphen is an award-winning conservation photographer, filmmaker and marine biologist based in Groningen, the Netherlands.

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