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 photography for 38 years, ZOTEYE began shooting analog photography and filmmaking at age ten, later expanding into commercial and editorial commissions across Europe and the U.S. But the core has remained the same: using the 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.

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 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