Peter Elenbaas

photographer

Dutch^[1] b. 1954^[1] active 1978–present

Peter Elenbaas is a Dutch photographer, born in 1954 into a family with a photographic background; his mother was a professional photographer. He left landscape architecture at Wageningen unfinished, attended the Fotovakschool and started as an independent photographer in 1978. For roughly ten years he worked as a photojournalist for Het Parool and contributed to weekly and monthly magazines, winning third prize in the Silver Camera competition. In 1989 he became head of the photo editing department at Het Parool. Around the turn of the century he returned to creative work as a staff photographer there. In 2007 he went independent and founded Elenbaas visuals. He specialises in aerial photography, portraits, architecture and video, and has published the Amsterdam onbewolkt series of books.^[1]

• photojournalism
• aerial photography
• Amsterdam