Willem Diepraam

Willem Diepraam (1944- ) was born in Amsterdam and first became interested in the photographic medium when he realized the success with which photo reportage could transport and imprint messages of social significance to vast audiences. With his early influences being the Dutch Worker Photographer movement and the photographer Ed van der Elsken, Diepraam began his career in the 1960s as a self-taught photojournalist working for a Dutch newspaper, Vrij Nederland.