Now I work as a photographer and in the hospital. I photograph every weekend, and I edit in the evening hours. Don´t worry about my boyfriend, he´s 43. It´s a busy life, but I love it! It gives me energy, it makes me happy. I know that I cannot live without my two passions because both are all about human beings. Every day I try to combine living as a doctor with living as an artist and I do it with lots of love. A personal breakthrough was portraying a bad-ass overweight high-school student naked in the woods and finding out a few months later he stabbed someone to death. That was the moment I realized I could be with different people in a genuine way and get them to do things I want them to do in a positive environment.  Most of the time I work for myself (photography and recently short films). I also work for magazines (portraying semi-famous people) and for a fashion company. I always work in a small team, and for my personal work I try to keep the team to model, assistant and me. When I make a short film the team tends to be a bit bigger with a caterer, a make-up artist, a stylist, assistants, actors, models. A big team is a challenge for my organizing skills, it turns my bleached blond hair grey, but it´s also a lot of fun to create my own set, my own little world.  I think I owe a lot to Otto Snoek, I will cure him if he gets ill. Other inspiration comes from movies, magazines, Madonna, life. I love the directors Robert Rodriguez, David Lynch and Francis Ford Coppola. As a doctor, making a living from photography is not a necessity, so I'm free to chose any topic. But the Art Academy should really focus a lot better on this aspect. You are your own brand, your own company. You should get training in accountancy, taxes, management, marketing and a lot more, but you get none. It´s a shame.

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