Jeroen Robert Kramer

Jeroen Robert Kramer is a former New York Times and Vanity Fair photographer. Born in Amsterdam in 1967, he left to study French literature and art in France at the age of 19. He only returned briefly to the Netherlands to leave again, this time for the Middle East. At first fascinated with war, Jeroen Robert Kramer documented several wars around the globe. Later he became disgusted with war and the spectacular way the media dealt with this. He explores this in his first award-winning book "Room 103". Kramer then returned to art and literature where he combines text and images to create a quiet and subtle takes on places and people. His second book a limited edition of a trip he made with novelist Ed O'Loughlin portrays a serene beauty of the Arctic Circle. His last book "Beyrouth objets trouvés" was voted one of the best books in 2012 by photo museum Foam's curator Kim Knoppers. It is a portrait of his hometown Beirut quite different from what one usually sees from this troubled capital.