Born as Rutger Geerling, the photographer also known as “Rudgr.com” is from the Netherlands and has covered the biggest EDM festivals and artists in the world.

Besides dance music photography, Rutger has had an extensive career in travel, extreme sports, winter sports and underwater photography. Publishing in many of the top magazines in those respective fields.

“What started out as taking pictures for fun, during a very boring Masters study, turned into scuba-diving with sharks, having snowboarders miss me by inches (sometimes not), standing between 30.000 raving people or climbing active volcanoes while seeing the furthermost corners of the earth. The choice of doing what I loved instead of what I learned was the best decision I ever made. This is living life to the fullest” - Rutger

Rutger is mostly known for his work in the dance music industry, serving as worldwide lead photographer for global festivals like Tomorrowland and Ultra Music Festival. He has worked with many of the world’s number top DJ’s like Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Fedde le Grand, W&W and Timmy Trumpet. His 2015 book on 20 years of dance music photography got rewarded the very prestigious Dutch Pop Media Award and he currently represents Canon as one of the few Canon Influencers. 

Founded in 1996

- Canon influencer
- National Geographic contributor
- Senior Photographer for ID&T since 2001
-Senior Photographer Tomorrowland (worldwide) since 2008
-Senior Photographer for Ultra Music Festival (worldwide) since 2012
-Tourphotographer for Armin, Hardwell, W&W, DV&LM, Fedde le Grand, Timmy Trumpet