press photo for my former band Paxy Dragon

Promotion pictures for the Spinshots – early stage.

The rehearsal spot of ‘The Brides Of Mayhem’ in ‘Deep Shit’.

This work was made for a group expo, for which the curator had a really cool idea: she had a pack of tarot cards and let all the artists pull a card. That was the card you had to redesign, and I had ‘strength’.

I thought a raging bull is strong, but to sleep between his horns is stronger.

During their ‘Fortuna’ period, Amsterdam Klezmer Band needed a promotional picture, you know, for magazines and program booklets. Fortuna sounded way more ‘esoteric’ than their other albums, and I came up with this diamond shape as an icon to use in their graphic identity. Fred van Diem made the separate photos.

Promo picture for the Spinshots. I wanted to communicate a link with the 60s and Exotica without being obvious.

During their ‘oy oy oy’ period, Amsterdam Klezmer Band needed a promotional picture. I thought it would be great if they’d be floating in space – there was also an idea in the making in which Alec would fly in a rocket to a black hole but we never made that clip. The promotional picture is there though – I also used elements of this shoot in the backdrop for their shows at the time.

The separate photos were made by Fred van Diem.