Overland #1 brings together analogue photographs made while traveling slowly across Asia by bicycle from december 2024 - february 2026.

For fourteen months I cycled through landscapes and small towns, often following minor roads and unexpected encounters. What started as a plan to ride from Nepal back to the Netherlands became something else entirely. The East kept pulling me in, and I let it.

The route took me through Nepal, India, Pakistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. On a bicycle, slowly, wild-camping, with an analogue camera.

What stayed with me most was not the distance, but what I found along the way. The warmth of people who welcomed me without hesitation. The scale of landscapes that made me feel very small. The stillness. A different rhythm of life, one with more room for rest, for being together, for slowing down. I noticed how little was needed to feel at home somewhere.

The analogue camera slows me down, makes me choose carefully. Each photograph is an attempt at full attention.

With these photographs, I hope to share a world of stillness and presence. The photographs shown here were all made during this journey.

I’m deeply grateful to the many people I met along the way.
Without their kindness, openness, hospitality, and countless small gestures of care, this journey would not have been possible.