
• 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