Cederik Leeuwe Photography

“A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself.
One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.”
– Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

Man wearing yellow rain jacket holding Fujifilm GFX 100 camera with GF 250mm F4 lens in front of rocky islands in Norway

Currently working as a media educator for youths and young adults in a state-funded NPO, I'm a qualified photography technician, TV-cameraman, video editor and teacher.

After fifteen years of complementary freelancing experience, I've mostly come back to a personal practice of photography, documenting my life, family and travels, though I still occasionally engage in photography freelancing (see contact for more information if you are interested in my services).

In 2014, I formally trained to become an ENG video professional and subsequently acquired experience capturing real-time events and giving them form in post-production. In recent years, I’ve shared those skills with young people, helping them create short films or podcasts that reflect how they see the world.

Video work—framing in motion, cutting for rhythm, thinking in sequences—has quietly reshaped how I approach photography, when documenting as well as when building narratives into books.

Music has always run parallel to my visual work. I grew up in a family of jazz musicians and was drumming in the progressive instrumental band Quantum Cellar, a project active from 2007 to 2011.

These days, I compose atmospheric soundscapes and experimental music using drums and synthesizers released under the Quantum Sea project. These are layered pieces that drift between ambient and drone, between industrial and introspective rhythm studies.

It’s not music made for the stage, but for solitary rooms, headphones, and night walks.

Like my photography, it’s a space where intuition leads, shaped more by mood than structure—an echo chamber of memory, time, and texture.

Circling back to photography: I have used a wide array of cameras over several brands during the last 20 years, I've made the decision to fully switch to using the Fujifilm GFX camera system in 2022.

Using Fujifilm's Medium Format cameras has been a choice partly made out of love for the slower pace it offers — throwing me back to my film medium format days — as well as choice motivated by my penchant for more in depth post-processing for which the GFX's file quality is ideal.

Here is a look into my video work with a candid ENG-style documentary filmed on HDV, reflecting on seven Japan trips (2010–2015). What began as a photographic mission to document something meaningful quietly shifted into sharing everyday moments and friendships.

This video is part of my “curiosity lab” on YouTube a place for the occasional video essay or stylistic experiment.

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