Haje Jan Kamps

Haje Jan Kamps (May 1981) is a Dutch photographer, writer and Journalist. He is best known for running the popular "Photocritic" photography blog, and for writing the book "Macro Photography Photo Workshop". He currently lives in London.

hort bio

Born on May 21, 1981, Leiderdorp, South Holland to parents Hielke Kamps and Lizeth Rovers, Haje moved to Norway in 1988, and to the UK in 2001. In England, he studied Journalism at [Liverpool John Moores University] , and started a stint working for different magazines.

In 2002, Haje started a website called Photocritic, which became extremely popular in December 2005, when it was featured on Slashdot ^{[http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/12/1725209 1]} , and subsequently got heavy coverage on Digg ^{[http://digg.com/tech_news/Make_a_Macro_Lens_from_a_Pringles_Can 2]} and dozens of other large blogs. The blog continues to be popular.

In 2007, he wrote a book on macro photography for John Wiley & Sons publishing, entitled "Macro Photography Photo Workshop" (ISBN 978-0470118764).

He has worked at Future Publishing as web editor for Fast Car Magazine and T3 magazine, and now works as a senior producer at Five, the British TV channel. .

External links

*Haje's [http://www.photocritic.org Photocritic] photography blog.
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470118768 "Macro Photography Photo Workshop"] on Amazon.