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I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I've been working with photography for many years.

While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.

I did painting before I did photography.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.