ZOTEYE (they/them — Berlin based) photographs the tension between freedom and limitation, the ways humans live fully despite knowing their time, energy, and bodies are finite. This obsession shapes every image: street scenes where individuals move through systems larger than themselves, portraits that hold the weight of presence and mortality, bodies as both vessels of energy and reminders of constraint. The work exists in that charged space between aliveness and ending, between breath and boundary.

With 38 years behind a camera, ZOTEYE's practice began with analog photography and filmmaking at age ten and deepened through commercial and editorial commissions across Europe and the U.S. But the core has always been the same: using the camera as a tool for observing, presence, and for refusing to sleepwalk through a limited life. After seventeen months of nomadic movement, grounded intermittently in Berlin and shaped by time in Paris, ZOTEYE's practice now centers in Berlin, where freedom and structure coexist.

The work exists across analog film, physical prints, on-chain editions, solo exhibitions, and teaching, each form returning to the same question: how do we stay fully alive? Teaching and community-building are inseparable from the photographic practice. Through workshops and mentorship, ZOTEYE guides others to use the camera not as a technical device but as a practice of presence, learning to see before running out of time.

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 — Rock Werchter — Pukkelpop — FujiFilm — Nikon — Black Gold Amsterdam

Press & publications

Brussels Airport Annual report, photography by Zoteye, 2001, 2002, 2003.

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

Daan trio portrait, Flair, 2010.

Grace Jones concert photograph, Reporters Press, published in festival season in select Belgian news papers, 2014-2015

Jarit Taelman, article Jeroen Walravens in Gazet Van Antwerpen (2017), photos by Zoteye.

Ghent Jazz, Nicolas Mortelmans Quartet, 2024.

Jazz and Mo, Falk Schrauwen portrait for interview, 2024.

Corriere della Serra, Tim Van de Velde portrait, 2024.

De Tijd, Nicolas Mortelmans portrait, 2025