ZOTEYE (they/them — Berlin based) photographs the tension between freedom and limitation, exploring how humans continue to live, love and move through the world while knowing their time, energy and bodies are finite. This obsession shapes every image: street scenes where individuals move through systems larger than themselves, portraits holding both presence and fragility, bodies as vessels of energy and reminders of constraint. The work exists in the charged space between aliveness and ending, between movement and boundary.

Working with still images for 38 years, ZOTEYE began photographing at the age of ten, rolled into filmmaking 10 years later and combined the two till the early 2000’s. After a brief but intense side quest into design, branding and social media, they came back to their first love, photography, in 2014 to then fully expand into commercial and editorial commissions across Europe and the U.S. Since 2024 they also started working on personal projects and quickly locked down the first solo exhibit in 2026 in Amsterdam. Over all this time, the core has remained the same: using a camera as a tool for observation, presence and resisting the sleepwalk of everyday life.

After seventeen months of nomadic movement through cities including Paris and Berlin, their practice is now grounded in Berlin, a city where freedom and structure continuously collide. A first monogram is expected at the end of 2026.

Select clients

Ancienne Belgique — Proximus— Live Nation — Lufthansa — Brussels Airlines — United Airlines — Brussels Airport — FedEx —Connections —Value Retail —Glidewell Specialties Foundry — Group Joos Printing — Selexion — Maene —Rock Werchter — Pukkelpop — FujiFilm — Nikon — Black Gold Amsterdam —De Pindakaaswinkel — Protect Insurances — Lucilla Kelly

Exhibition history

2026 July: FSL Berlin - Group exhibit DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS

2026 June: Solana Summit Germany - Creators Guild Group Exhibit in Berlin

2026 April-June: Black Gold Amsterdam - Berlin Orbit One solo exhibit

2024 Art Crush Gallery Brussels, Belgium

2015-present: Glidewell, private location, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

2004: Artipool architects studio, Kortenberg, Belgium

2001-2003: Brussels Airport terminal, Zaventem, Belgium

2001: Photography graduate exhibit, Narafi Duden Castle, Forest-Brussels, Belgium

Press & publications

2025: De Tijd, Belgian Financial Newspaper, Nicolas Mortelmans portrait

2024: Corriere della Serra, Tim Van de Velde portrait

2024: Jazz and Mo, Falk Schrauwen portrait for interview

2024: Ghent Jazz, Nicolas Mortelmans Quartet

2017: Jarit Taelman (journalist), article about Jeroen Walravens in Gazet Van Antwerpen

2015: Grace Jones concert photograph, Reporters Press, published in festival season in select Belgian news papers

2010: Daan, Flair commissioned by Reporters Press Agency

2003: Marc Dubois, LensAss. Architects. Tielt: Lannoo

2001-2004: Brussels Airport Annual report, photography by Zoteye