The photo series Crust invites you to look at the hidden beauty within the pure surface of skin, while also revealing its many facets in relation to textures from nature.

This disorienting interplay reveals the fragility and variability of our skin and its affinity with the natural elements. For just as a rock erodes, sand forms undulating banks and moss grows on bark, our skin also reacts to a wealth of internal and external stimuli. We get goosebumps when we’re cold and a soft red flush when it’s warm. Or just think of burns, scars, birthmarks and wrinkles. The fleeting map of contours and lines that is imprinted on the skin by a chair or garment. On the one hand, Crust focuses on people with atypical skin, but on the other, it also shows skin that reacts captivatingly.

Skin is our largest organ and it lives, responds and speaks. With Crust, I capture its language in images. A language of attraction and reticence, one that you long to read but which, at times, you dare not look in the eye.