In 1982 I became interested with the technical side of photography. I had until then worked in theatre, performing, directing, writing, and choreographing. I had the opportunity to learn how to develope and print my photographs in a professional darkroom in the multimedia center 'The Melkweg' in Amsterdam. Around that time I also started to work with the very talented pop photographer Kees Tabak as his studio assistant. I continued to photograph in my own studio working with light and composition. In 1988 I showed my nude black and white work to Suzanne Dechert, the curator of the Melkweg Gallery, and she offered to expose it with 6 other women's erotic work 'Seven Women on Erotic Photography'.