From Engineer to Videographer.

I was born in the Netherlands and came to the UK as a kid, growing up mostly in Birmingham. I've always had an eye for capturing moments, I was the one friends handed their phone to for a photo or a video. That turned into something more when I bought a drone for a trip to Iceland. I loved what I captured, loved editing it, loved posting it, and people responded. So I picked up a camera and started doing the same thing, and before long people were paying me to shoot for them.

At the time I was eight years into a career as an engineer. Filming didn't feel like work, and I realised there was never going to be a better time to take the leap, so I did.

Football's always been part of my life. I played with friends growing up, nothing professional, until an ACL tear put me on the sidelines. I tried to come back, re-injured it, and decided to stop before I made it worse. Filming became my way of staying close to the game. I started shooting grassroots football around Birmingham, and that content made enough noise that the BBC interviewed one of the teams I worked with and used my footage in a live broadcast, still one of the moments I'm proudest of.

My engineering background shows up more than people expect. You can't script what happens at a live event, and I've learned to treat every change on the day as a redirection rather than a setback, find the solution, adapt fast, keep capturing. That mindset is probably the biggest thing I bring to a shoot.

I've always thought Birmingham was underrated creatively compared to somewhere like Manchester or London, so I make a point of filming in other cities and countries too. It keeps me sharp and brings ideas back that I wouldn't have found by staying in one place. Filming runners for a few different projects actually got me into running myself, that's one of the things I love about this job, you end up surrounded by people doing interesting things, and some of it rubs off.

Long term, I want the creative freedom to direct brands and people in ways that are genuinely mine, and to do that for some of the biggest names in the world, wherever that takes me.