A Quiet Start

I have always been drawn to places that feel calm — a small café table with the sun coming through the windows, a misty forest in the first hours of the morning, the waves at a beach with seagulls flying over my head, the smell of coffee and freshly baked pastries as you walk into a kitchen.

My photography has always been connected to how I feel. A soft patch of light in a room always makes me feel hopeful and positive. The textures of the light and shadows that the leaves and branches of the trees cast on the floor make me feel alive and connected. And the simple mundaneness of a rural scene makes me feel the most at home.

Whether I am photographing a simple coffee cup and cake in a café or the flowers in bloom in spring, I look for the calmness and serenity in the scene — the feeling in it.

I have not really introduced myself, and at this point it just feels like I should. So I will.

My name is Jordi and I am a photographer living in the Netherlands. Those that have been following me on Instagram might have done so because of my coffee photography, others might have caught my wildlife photography phase during Covid and most of you may have found me over the last year, when I fell in love again with photography and began to develop a style around rural scenes, nature and light.

Now it feels a bit like going full circle as I am again drawn to coffee and food photography. I want to go back to photographing cafés, restaurants and unique places — even though I still want to keep that calm atmosphere that filled my grid last year. I think this blog is, in a way, a personal reflection and a way for me to share this path with whoever wants to read it.

I can’t really promise what I will find at the end of this path, but I think I am starting to enjoy this shift in my work, and maybe even in myself. If you’re curious, follow along. I’ll be sharing more here — thoughts on my progress, the places this will take me, and photos, loads of them.

Have a nice evening,