ENTRY DESCRIPTION
MEMORIES

Without memories life is not possible. We would be completely lost and could not find guidance and perspective. This new series is based on geographical reminiscences. When we see a picture, a flower, an animal, or are facing a situation, this suddenly can awake a sense of bygone days.
And for the memories presented here, the cretarion is beauty. There already is displayed too much horror, so to behold the beauty might be a treat. The memories come from different places in different countries.

AUTHOR
Growing old I feel as a great pleasure. It helps to be more open to the world, with less prejudices and even more discoveries. However I did not become a saint. Born in Rotterdam during wartime in 1942. In my memory pictures of German soldiers marching on the bridge in front of our house. A German guard on a wooden stool in a tree of our garden behind the house. This formed the basis for the way I looked later to the world, especially in regard to the authorities.
In my youth I made a short movie about suffering around the statue of Zadkine in the center of the bombed city of Rotterdam. Zadkine reduces the figures to their most concise and telling form.
Since that time my photo works focus on the essential of what I see.
At young age I have been awarded for photocontests. After a careeer as journalist modern art, and later as socio-economical and political affairs as editor of a leading daily newspaper, I moved to the French province Ardèche, where I could freely enjoy the photography with many exhibitions in France, and some in Holland and Switzerland. Meanwhile I have been rewarded several times by the Tokyo International Foto Awards, and other rewards by Neutral Density Photo Awards and Minimalist Photo Awards.

back to gallery