During my Military Service I was trained as a photographer and “corporate journalist” . I got the unique opportunity to work with a professional photographer, traveled through Europe, wrote reports and made photo reports, stood for days in the darkroom with a beautiful magazine at the end of the month. After my service I made photo documentaries in Poland, The Baltic States and the Ukraine. I traveled through the Crimea, visited Odessa as well as the KGB prison in Vilnius. I wanted to photograph like Ed van der Elsken and in 1993 began a long-form reporting on Amsterdam Oud-West. It resulted in several exhibitions. Until in 1996 all vintage prints were destroyed by a flooded studio. From then on, I put away my Canon F1 camera. The negatives stored in a safe where they remained for 25 years. With the advent of the Iphone, I picked up the thread of photography again. Soon I bought a digital camera and started street photography again.