Hans van der Meer

Hans van der Meer (1955), studied from 1973 to 1976 at the MTS for Photography in The Hague and from 1983 to 1986 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. During the latter period, Van der Meer captured street scenes in Budapest, of which the photo book Quirk of Fate was published in 1987. In the same year, he received an award for this series in the ‘Daily Life’ category of the World Press Photo.