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I got my first camera when I was 5 or 6 years old. 40 years ago that meant that would be a fixfocus camera. I remember one of my first shots I took was of a couple of Dinky Toys. Of course I needed a proper location for that. Next to the airforce base in Germany where my father worked was an old landingstrip from world war 2. So I decided to get my little bicycle out and go there to photograph my Dinky Toys. That was a one way 6 km trip!
And since the camera I used was fixfocus (focus from 1,80 meters and onwards) and I put the little Dinky Toys right in front of my lens, of course this resulted in a blurry photo.
That was the first photo I can still remember taking.
When I was 18 I decided to go off to Paris. I stayed in a cheap hotel for almost a year, and I did a lot of (mainly) black and white photography. Being back in the Netherlands I did a four year education at a technical school for Photography in The Hague. After this I worked in several photo studios in the Netherlands as a photographer, before moving out to Israel, where I worked as a photographer and as first assistant to Ron Kedmi, a well known fashion photographer in Israel. Having worked there for more than two years I decided to go to South Africa and try my luck there, together with my Israeli girlfriend. We got married there, but since confirmative action was kicking in, in the aftermath of Apartheid we moved to the Netherlands. I went back to work as a studio photographer, but after 5 years I suffered from a serious back injury and I had to quit.
Today, I work in a specialized shop for photography as a digital consultant, give workshops and lectures about photography and give private lessons in photoshop. I have two kids, boy and girl, who are my dearest subjects since they were born. Being here on Flickr gives me my inspiration to improve every day again.

Peter





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