Type|Faces

Type|Faces was my first long-term project. It began in 2019 and the final photographs were made in 2025.

The initial spark came years earlier. I remember seeing the back cover of Songs from a Room, where Marianne Ihlen sits behind Leonard Cohen’s typewriter. I wanted that same simplicity for my own writing. Around 2012 I bought my first typewriter from an elderly couple who had purchased their Underwood portable in the 1950s.

What started as a small rebellion against the digital age gradually became a fascination with the machines themselves—their weight, their mechanics, their presence. Along the way I discovered a hidden community of typewriter enthusiasts. I became curious about what drives people to unearth, dust off, and revive these forgotten instruments by feeding them fresh ink.

From writers and collectors to technicians and sellers, the typewriter has woven itself into many lives. Through this project I tried to bring those stories to the surface.

The first three stories were exhibited at Cultura (Ede, NL) in March 2025.