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Born in Enschede in the Netherlands, I've been a photographer since 1971. I enrolled from a photo academy in Munich-Germany (Bayrische Staatslehranstalt fuer Fotografie) which I attended for two years, then started in South Africa as a film cameraman in 1976. The Soweto student uprising on the 16 June 1976, was my first assignment as a cameraman, working for the then South African SABC TV for about a year and a half, then started filming for the German network ARD doing news and documentary's...after that in 1982 I started freelancing for NOS, ZDF, BBC, French TV, ABC Australia, PBS and NBC untill landing at CBS were I still am today, filming news, 60 Minutes, 48 Hrs and show-side pieces.
On the 17 June 1986 I was deported from South Africa allegedly for breaking the emergency laws, and flown to London were my family and I still live today.
Just about anything that has happened world wide since 1976 I've covered for news from the Soweto uprising to the war in Rhodesia(Zimbabwe, Angole, Mozambique, from Rwanda to Sierra Leone to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Iran, China, India, Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall, Romania, East Germany, Russia, Israel, several winter/summer Olympics and much, much more.
I picked up photography again a few years ago in Afghanistan, were I bought a cheap digital camera at the US military PX shop at Bahram airbase for just $95.-, a little thing that I could take pictures with because I thought it to be a good idea at the time. I have since "moved up" to a Canon ixus 5mp which I like to use as an instant camera because that's all I have space and time for, at the moment I take pictures with a Panasonic Lumix 12mp and a Leica lens, the results can be seen on this website.
On the 17 June 1986 I was deported from South Africa allegedly for breaking the emergency laws, and flown to London were my family and I still live today.
Just about anything that has happened world wide since 1976 I've covered for news from the Soweto uprising to the war in Rhodesia(Zimbabwe, Angole, Mozambique, from Rwanda to Sierra Leone to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Iran, China, India, Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall, Romania, East Germany, Russia, Israel, several winter/summer Olympics and much, much more.
I picked up photography again a few years ago in Afghanistan, were I bought a cheap digital camera at the US military PX shop at Bahram airbase for just $95.-, a little thing that I could take pictures with because I thought it to be a good idea at the time. I have since "moved up" to a Canon ixus 5mp which I like to use as an instant camera because that's all I have space and time for, at the moment I take pictures with a Panasonic Lumix 12mp and a Leica lens, the results can be seen on this website.
