We are facing global challenges, I decided to explore how insects can contribute locally to solving a multitude of issues. I’m doing it traveling, taking photographs in research centers, farms, companies and communities all over the world and engaging wit

GET THE BUG PODCAST NEW EPISODES 

Three new episodes of my podcast Get The Bug are now live on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

Check them out! - They also include updates about the upcoming Insects to Feed the World conference, including the Call for Abstracts, with the submission deadline fast approaching: January 23.

Episode 31: Welfare and Trust in Insect Farming, with Meghan Barrett.

Episode 30: AI, Breeding, and the Optimization of Insect Farming, with Adi Abada and Idan Aliagor from FreezeM.

Episode 29: Edible Insects - What’s Fact, What’s Fiction? With Arnold Van Huis.

I N S C T S x the World Press Photo 

Again this year, I had the honour of being recommended to participate in World Press Photo with my project 𝗜 𝗡 𝗦 𝗖 𝗧 𝗦.

So over the past 5 weeks, I’ve been immersed in the application process — refining the narrative and focusing on the most recent material I’ve collected on insect farming. 

Most of the images I submitted come from my 2025 trips to China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. In Vietnam, I had the chance to document Entobel’s facility in Dat Do, Asia’s largest black soldier fly producer. Around 250 people work there, processing 350–450 tons of locally sourced organic waste every day. Thanks again to Entobel — and to Jeroen De Wachter in particular — I also visited a Nutreco/Skretting feed facility including insect meal in their animal feed, as well as a sustainable shrimp farm which integrates insect meal as a part of their mission to produce antibiotics-free and higher-value shrimp.

Ten years after its first successful edition in Wageningen, the Insects to Feed the World - IFW international conference has become a global leading event in the insect farming sector, bringing together academics and industry professionals from all over the world. 
A perfect combination to foster a culture of continuous development in this growing field and to enhance knowledge sharing experience in a stimulating scientific environment.