Artist Lois Cohen

Landsmeer, the Nederlands I 2016

Cowboy Mairo with his beloved Pony on a farm in Holland.

The image is part of a series featuring Mairo Nawaz, a Amsterdam based up-and-coming DJ.

Growing up listening to his mother's reggae and grandmother's Soul and Jazz music, Mairo started drumming at the age of ten and showed musical talents at an early age. It wasn't before long or he immersed himself in Hip-Hop and R&B in his teens, but never felt like an old archeologist when he dusted off his family's old record collections and tried to find a correlation with the modern music of today. He brought this enthusiasm to connect the olden and modern dots with him as a DJ and manages to make everything his own.

While his career as a DJ is still in the springtime of its life, his portfolio certainly isn't, with spinning at Appelsap Festival, Lowlands Festival, Mysteryland and playing at Lil' Wayne's, Tyler The Creator's and FKA twigs' show.