When I was a child I used to watch my father in the magical darkroom in the attic of our old house in Slikkerveer (the Netherlands - from the windows on the second floor you could look over the 'dijk' and imagine the large river and the windmills on the other side, one of the sounds I still hear in my dreams is the grave voice of the mist-horn the 'rijnaaks' used at night). In that attic darkroom every equipment was made by my father (not only the enlarger, but we made also a real working radio). I learned how to develop prints and got a lot of very critical (that at that time I didn't always appreciate ...) advices about my pictures.
My first camera was an Agfa click II, bought of my own saved pocket money.
Some years later I got my father's praktiflex,
I still cherish it.
From the time my father taught me, I never stopped taking photographs...

Some of my preferred camera's; the wonderful Pentax 645n (with a 75mm and 150mm. and 120mm. - macro), a Nikon D 200 (with a 18-200 zoom), the Olympus OM1 (with a 50mm, a 135mm, a 28mm and a 75-150mm ), the Asahi Pentax F (with 105mm and 50mm), the Pentacon I (with a 58mm ), the Praktiflex (with a Primoplan 58mm) and the beautiful contax G2.

Awards:

- a special mention as 'Autore Segnalato' (with one or more works published) in the 'premio fotografico 2008 (Italy)'
- the entry "Withered Amarillys Flower" received a Honorable mention in the International Photographic Awards (IPA 2008)

- finalist in the LPA Documentary competition "my backyard" 2009

- finalist in the LPA competition "Love, Pain & Beauty" 2009

My 'London' Portfolio