In 1999 I was invited by Fotofestival Naarden to make a work on animals in the Dutch Landscape. On a foggy Saturday morning I photographed this sheep north above Amsterdam. When you walk towards them in the field, there is always a moment when they freeze briefly at a certain distance. It reminds of the body language that you often see in nineteenth century photography of Dutch photographer Pieter Oosterhuis. Because of the long exposure times he would ask the workers of huge construction works to stand still for a while. From then on ‘sheep in the mist’ became my favorite method to photograph animals. (page under construction)