Leo
Erken (1964) is an Amsterdam based photographer and film maker.
He studied photography
at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede, the Netherlands, from 1983 till 1988.
As a student, he travelled on numerous occasions to Poland and other countries
in the former communist bloc. After graduating in 1988, he continued to
follow the developments in eastern Europe and covered the revolutions
in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary for Dutch national
newspapers. In 1991, he moved his work area to the former Soviet Union,
visiting more than fifty times such countries as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Georgia.
Besides his travels he worked in the Netherlands on various photography
and art projects. In the late nineties he partly moved to documentary
film making.
NL12 is the name of Leo Erken's Amsterdam based workshop.
At NL12 we develop and produce journalistic stories for printed media
as well as for television. We also help other organisations with the production
of books, films and exhibitions.
Our adress is:
NL12
Nieuwe
Leliestraat 12
1015 SP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+3120 4213945
You can e-mail us here