• 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