Eljee Bergwerff

Eljee Bergwerff (b. 1975) is married and has four children. With another couple they live in the De IJsselhoeve, a house where children with mental disabilities can come to stay in order to give their parents and brothers and sisters some rest. His first photos, when he was fifteen, were of his motorcycle and parakeet. A few rolls of film later he started to earn money when he started to sell his photos to newspapers. After studying photography he has travelled abroad widely covering photographically subjects assigned to him. More recently his work has focused on subjects personally selected. He is a member of an evangelical congregation. www.eljee.nl