Photographer Bios

Photographer Bios for "Camera Collaborations"

Sister City Photo Project Between Enschede and Palo Alto

Fotoclub de Zoeker

Roald Kooijman, born in 1963, raised in Haastrecht, a little village (5,000 inhabitants), near the beautiful town of Gouda, in the west of the Netherlands. Family: one brother, one sister. I myself am a family member of three: girlfriend Anita and daughter Evie (19 years and still living with us). Since 1985 I live in Enschede, the home town of my girlfriend. We are living almost 40 years together. I’ve got another somewhat distant family member living in San Francisco, where I was twice. Together with him I drove all the the way from SFO to Durham NC, where he lived for a couple of years before he went back. My job is social work in a psychiatric hospital. Photography has started in the 80’s, my first real camera was a Minolta x300, after that I used most of the time Nikon gear, real system cameras like the Nikon F3 and F4. I had several digital cameras, coolpix, d100, d3 and d500. About six years ago I changed to Fujifilm from xt2, xh1 and now xh2. I use 10-24, 18-55 and 50-230 zoom lenses and a godox t350 flash. Almost every kind of photography I enjoy, but my “specialty “ is architecture. Other hobbies are nature, hiking and biking.

Hello, my name is Richard Morsman, my age is 78. My hometown is Enschede, I am member of the photoclub "De Zoeker". Photography is my addiction, fashion was my profession. Starting photography in 1958 Agfa Click, 1965 canon QL-25. In 1967 my first SLR camera Nikkormat FTN, 1998 my last SLR Nikon F100. 2002 Digital: Nikon D100, D200, D700 FF, and my last Nikon D800 In 2013 I changed (after 46 yrs Nikon) to FUJI because of the plastic outside of NIKON.

After X-PRO 1 and X-PRO 2, is the X-PRO 3 titanium. The PRO 3 is my best friend ever, I like the hidden lcd and the OVF+EVF. The Fuji colors are the best, and the film simulations are great. The solid titanium body gives me a vintage feeling. My favorite photography is documentary photography, street, and architecture.

Hans Rolevink's photography is very diverse, sports-, portrait-, street photography, etc. It's not to be pigeonholed. I was born and raised in the city of Enschede, Twente. I also lived in Arnhem and Deventer for years (film A Bridge Too Far). I am a widower and have a son with a disability, a daughter with two (grand)children. I am an Electronic Technician and Art Designer/Graphic Designer. I taught the entire Adobe package, including video camera techniques. Academie Creatieve Technologie (ACT) combines courses in the field of Media, Creation and Applied Technology at Enschede University of Applied Sciences, now Saxion.

Like most of us, my main hobby is photography, but also film and editing. I have been involved in photography for more than 50 years. First with my Canonflex and Rolleicord 6x6 and printing by myself in the darkroom in the bathroom. In 2000 Polaroid camera and now Canon 6D mark 2. As a designer, now retired and busy with three websites.

I also have broad interests: blues, jazz, hard rock music, I like to cook, and I love to bake, and family-, world history.

Martin Klein Schaarsberg lives in Enschede, the Netherlands. He was born in 1989 on a dairy farm. He studied applied physics at University of Twente. While travelling for an internship abroad in 2013, he bought his first camera to document his travels. Over time, Martin grew to love more abstract subjects such as the movement of thoughts, the profundity of stillness and his connection with nature. Photography became a way of reflecting on awareness and perception and relating to life's challenges.

Martin develops and scans black and white film at home and occasionally prints cyanotypes. He aspires to build his own darkroom and exhibit his prints. Pictured at left: Martin with his first darkroom print. Made by Guus IJzereef. To view a selection of Martin's photos, go to www.martinkleinschaarsberg.nl.

My name is Rikie Scholten and I may enjoy my retirement, and I surely do! For my 10th birthday I got a camera, an Agfa with black and white film in it, the nice thing was waiting for the developing of the photo's, if the photos turned out well. Now I have an OM system and a Fujifilm camera. I love nature shots, most of all macro.

My name is Henk Snuverink. Photography is my hobby. I make photos of things that I find attractive (architecture, sport, nature, landscape). I try to give my photos an alienating effect through composition, color, exposure and Photoshop. For inspiration I visit the websites of 1x.com, 500px and Gettyimages (sport).

My name is Bert van Hoek. I am 68 years old and have been photographing since I was an adolescent. Autodidact. In the analog era it started with a small device from Agfa, mainly slide positive. Now with a Fuji digital mirrorless camera.

I have a wide range of interests and take pictures of everything. But my passion lies in nature photography, especially macro. For an impression, see my website: www.bertnatuurlijk.nl

What I like about photography is the journey of discovery you make every time. Looking for beautiful images, viewpoints, light, frames. You will always make new choices and it remains fascinating, again and again.

My name is Ineke van Voorst and I'm born and raised in Enschede. My greatest hobby is photography. I'm an active member of the photo club "De Zoeker". The main advantage of the membership are the mutual activities, such as training courses, field trips and lectures. My favorite photographic subjects include animal life, street photography and "urbex".

Palo Alto Camera Club

Sue Borg is a born and raised New Yorker who has been settled in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1982. While raising a family and running a small law firm, her early interest in photography laid essentially dormant until about 2016 when she purchased a new digital camera and gradually began her photographic journey. Sue particularly enjoys making images of coastal landscapes and traveling to new locales to create images of wildlife and more exotic landscapes. She is a member of the Palo Alto Camera Club since 2019 and is currently serving as co-president of the club.

Allan Colby was born in New Jersey in 1943, but soon after, his parents moved to upstate New York, where he grew up. At Brown University, he began studying to be an electronics engineer but eventually discovered an allergy to all forms of higher math, so he switched to cultural anthropology. (This background, he claims, qualified him to design grass huts.) In his last year at Brown, he discovered art and photography, and he was especially inspired by a course in creativity taught by noted cartoonist and printmaker Edward Koren. Allan's photography mirrors the diversity of his career, which spanned industrial marketing, software development, and technology advertising. When not taking and processing pictures, his wide-ranging interests include history, art, music, cooking, travel and more. For 15 years, he and his wife spent their summers at a second home in southwest France; they have now retired to a condo in Mountain View, California. He shoots primarily with Panasonic Lumix cameras (e.g., G9ii, GX9) and processes with Capture One and Photoshop; click here for a few samples of his work.

Nadine Levin is a lens-based artist residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interest is to tell stories across many genres and subject matters. Nadine is a member of the Palo Alto Camera Club.

Nadine became serious about photography after retiring from leadership positions in the public sector. She has studied photography at the Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Harvey Milk Center, Foothill Community College, Los Angeles Center for Photography and with Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery.

Her work has been accepted for juried group exhibitions both within the United States and internationally. Nadine’s work is held in both private and public collections.

Yumiko Ready is a Tokyo native who has found a second home in Silicon Valley. After retiring from my career as a graphic designer, photography has become my profound passion. I especially enjoy capturing the intricate beauty of botanicals, the vibrant narratives of street life, and the mesmerizing forms of abstract art in everyday scenes. Through my lens, I find immense satisfaction in capturing the fusion of nature, urbanity, and creativity.

I (Wright Schickli) was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1957. I was captivated by my Kodak Instamatic Camera at eight years old, but my small allowance did not allow me to shoot and develop many photos. During college I studied in Munich my junior year in college at the university there, as I was a German literature major. I bought a Minolta film camera before I left and fell in love with it when living in Munich and traveling to surrounding areas. But my senior year in college I took my first photography class and received a bad grade that made it so I could not get into my first choice law school. My instructor said my photos looked like ones that Lee Friedlander would take! So I sold all my photo equipment and cameras when I went to law school and did no photography for 40 years. Then I bought my first digital camera when the pandemic hit in 2019 and I joined the Palo Alto Camera Club.

Since joining the Club I have become addicted to digital photography, and Leica cameras. After having numerous photos accepted by Galleries in the USA, I sold some of my rare vinyl record LPs to buy cameras, and now favor my Leica M11 monochrome camera, and my Leica M9 dedicated infrared camera that shoots only dark 850 infrared black & white photos. But I have a regular M11 for color, and an old Leica film camera which I am beginning to use more. One hobby feeds another!

I like street photography and odd things I see on my walks close to home, as photography has made me appreciate those little unnoticed things in life that we sometimes just walk by. It’s just the way I see the world. Photography keeps me excited about life and meeting new friends to share my passion with.