• Myanmar

• Yangon

• Myanmar • Yangon



A city reeling from COVID and the coup

• Rakhine State

• Myanmar

• Rakhine State • Myanmar



A fishing community struggles for survival amidst war and poverty

• Shipai

• Guangzhou

• China

• Shipai • Guangzhou • China



An overcrowded urban village on the cusp of demolition

selected for Rencontres d’Arles festival 2019

featured on LensCulture

• Portraits

• Myanmar

• Portraits • Myanmar



The forgotten faces of a country in crisis

• Shanghai

• China

• Shanghai • China



The birth pangs of an emerging city in the early 2000s

“Kooij captures, with humor, how people cope against a new backdrop where they themselves sometimes seem to be the odd ones out.”

Garrie van Pinxteren
Journalist & China expert