Ardent Eye

Met het monumentale Ardent Eye viert Hans Kemp zijn 20-jarige carrière als fotograaf in Azië. De foto's zijn genomen van inwoners van Vietnam, Laos, Cambodja, Thailand, Myanmar, China, Japan, Iran, India, Maleisië, Tibet en nog meer landen. Het verzorgde boek telt 176 bladzijden, weegt een kloeke 2,2 kg en is indrukwekkend groot: maar liefst 38x28 centimeter, dat zijn ongeveer twee A4'tjes naast elkaar.

Hans Kemp

" I was born in the Netherlands in 1962. I must have been around 16 years old when I bought my first camera; a Nikon FE.
Darkroom and lighting techniques were introduced to me in photography courses given by a local photographer but it wasn't until I started my travels that my photography started to develop. That was in May 1986 when I bought a one way ticket; Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur.
18 months later I returned to Holland, with many rolls of film and a restless heart. My first story - about Tibet- got published. I landed a job as tour leader with a company in Amsterdam, Monkey King. They specialized in China tours and in 1988 I guided my first group from Rawalpindi in northern Pakistan to Beijing. What a job! For the next four years I travelled all over China, with groups and, in between tours, on my own.