Sander has been working as a photographer since 1998.
After having visited the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague he started working in several advertising studios back in the Netherlands (1997), making him a versatile visual artist.
He started as an independent photographer in 2002.
From 2007 until now he works as an international photojournalist and allround photographer mainly in the Benelux, France, and Germany.
He won several photography prizes like the Belgian Belfius Award on photojournalism (2012) and two times 2nd prize at the Silver Camera (NL) Awards 2013 ( foreign news) and got nominated for the Brussels Street Photography Festival in 2019.