February 2009 Featured Member: Ton Mestrom - Street Photographer

Image by Ton Mestrom

Like many people on Photo.net, photography is Ton Mestrom’s passion but his day job is something else. Working as an RN overseeing a endoscopy department in the university hospital of Maastricht, photography plays a small role in his professional life (digitally processing specialized endoscopic images for example). That has not stopped him from following his passion for photography and becoming a truly wonderful street photographer.

Street photography can be difficult for even the most technically talented photographers. That is because there is so much more to this type of photography than just knowing the numbers that make up the technical side of image making. A good street photographer has to have a sense of place, a sense of self, a set of people skills, a quick eye and has to know how all of those talents fit into the environment that he is working in. Ton has these skills and they show in his images.

”By profession I’m a trained observer and for me there’s nothing more interesting than observing the world around me and the people in it, the way they behave and interact amongst themselves as well as with their environment. It’s really as simple as that. It’s like being a child in an adult world—you see so many unexpected and amazing things. ” -Ton Mestrom

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