Een Stille Dood explores social isolation and the growing amount of people who die without mourners. Every year tens of people in the Netherlands are buried without family, friends, or anyone to bear witness to their passing; their funerals are arranged by the municipality.

The project emerged from my years working in home care, where I entered the private worlds of people living across Amsterdam. Behind closed doors, I encountered forms of loneliness that remained largely invisible to the outside world: lives shaped by the gradual disappearance of social ties. These encounters made me reflect on the human need to be seen and remembered.

Situated between documentary and fiction, Een Stille Dood creates narratives where fact and imagination to coexist. The photographs move between the tangible and the symbolic, between what can be known and what must remain unknowable. Ultimately, Een Stille Dood asks what it means to be remembered, and what it means to disappear.