Mark van der Zouw en Corné van der Stelt

the world. Van der Zouw has won several

prizes at the Zilveren Camera, an annual

photo competition for Dutch photojournalists.

Corné van der Stelt (the Netherlands,

1979) also studied at the Photo Academy in

Amsterdam and had a training placement

at Nieuwe Revu Magazine. He now contributes

to several magazines, both in the

Netherlands and abroad, and has specialised

in portrait photography.

Van der Zouw and Van der Stelt work together

on documentary and commercial

photo projects under the name Zie ’t Zo

(See it Thus). Their series The Eel Fisherman

won them first prize at the Zilveren Camera

2009 in the category Everyday News. In Still-

Life they photographed the domestic interiors

of solitary people who are completely

neglecting themselves. We see houses in

which the junk and other waste is piled

high. Although such a situation would be

unthinkable for others, for these people it

is entirely liveable. Their dereliction often

goes hand in hand with mental disorders,

such as a mania for collecting things.