After college I went to art-school and got my BA in Audio-Visual Design. In the same time I found some new ways to be creative: music & everything that is related to it, management, bookings and promotion.
I really loved the hardcore-punk-movement of the early and mid 80’s and the "Do It Your Selve"-way of producing your own products. I photographed numerous bands and played some great gigs with my own bands. But mostly I was involved promoting and booking gigs for a local concerthall.

In the 90's most of my spare time was consumed by playing music and doing gigs all over Europe. Playing guitar in an instrumental surfpunk band, when a movie called Pulp Fiction came out, was a marketing plan from hell! I was working during the week and in the weekends playing every bar and venue from Denmark to South-Germany. Although I never stopped photographing, most of the photo's I took were music related, eather publicity shots for bands or live-photos for magazine.

In 2001, my wife and I made our first trip to the southwest of the USA. The beauty of the landscapes inspired me to take up photography serious again. Since then I am working, beside my daytime job in public relations, as a freelance photographer. In 2002 I started my own little freelance photo business called ArnyZona Photography.

My work is available through international acclaimed stock agencies: Alamy and Photographers Direct. Or directly via the contactform on this website.

Selected publications:

2007 - "Monumental Roermond" - shot 90% of the photos of this magazine special published by the Dutch Magazine Monumenten

2007 - "The 10 Most Amazing Land Formations", published by Rubicon, Canada. Educational book, shot the chapter about the Coyote Buttes, Utah.

2006 - Shot the DVD-cover for Peter Pan Speedrock as well as most photo's for the DVD menu's.

2006 - Several acclaimed prizes: Dyxum photo of the month (3x!), IgoUgo-award among others.

2006 - Provided the cover-photograph for a BBC-documentary DVD about John Cale.

2006 - Zoom.nl magazine - A 6 page feature about ArnyZona Photography and interview in the biggest photomagazine in the Netherlands.

2006 - Zoom.nl magazine - photoreportage of a trip through Jordan. Featuring photo's of Bianca van der Werf, Sander Nagel and me. The article was written by Hans van Vliet.

2005 - "Hollands Zicht" - a photobook published by the Dutch Photography Museum and the AVRO TV-network. A selection of Dutch photographers give their own vision in this book on the landscapes of the Netherlands. They choose this photo for the book. The same photo was also exhibited in the Brabants Museum in january 2006 as part of an exhibition that accompanied the book.

2005 - "Thirst/Dorst" - A photobook with a selection of photo's that I took during our travels in 2005/2004. You can order it through this website.

2005 - Photo's where used for articles in (inter)national magazines as "Modern Painters" (UK), "Elmore Magazine" (USA), "De Kampioen", "City Life", "Spits", "Metro".

2005 - Photo used as 2005 campain image for "Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 Mei" in all major printed media.

2005 - article about my work in "I go U go - Rough Guide" quarterly newsletter. (IgoUgo is one of the largest travel communities on the web, Rough Guide is a leading publisher of travelguides).

2002 - 2007 Several publications for local and international tourist offices, city guides, websites and travelagencies, including Roermond City Guide, Maasplassen Magazine, Navenant, Citylife, Dutch Tourist Office Magazine.

My photo's & articles were and are published in the german cultural magazine "Westzeit" (since the late '80s).

Since 1988 my photo's were published in several international pop&rock magazines, websites and used for CD-artwork and artist/event promotions, like ad-campains.

Zoom Magazine interview - june 2006

IgoUgo Internatonal e-magazine feature - 2006

Travel UK main photo for article - november 2006

Monumenten Magazine - july 2007 (40 page special about monuments in Roermond)

Zoom Magazine got me and 3 other photographers on a photo trip to Jordan

Photo reportage 'last city council meeting' - december 2006

Poster 'Treelogy' (limited edition) - june 2006