The Dark Rooms of... Tom Meerman

The Dark Rooms of... is an interview series in which a photographer talks about his or her darkrooms, the digital and the mental, or technical and inspirational. What makes you click?

In this edition of The Dark Rooms of… we focus on Dutch photographer Tom Meerman. Tom is a well-known and very active person in the Dutch photographic scene. You’ll get to know him in this interview.

By the way, if you haven’t read the previous five interviews, you can find them in the archive.

Here we go.

Who are you?

I am Tom Meerman, born in Amsterdam in 1959. I have been photographing since I was seventeen. After graduating from the Art Academy in Arnhem (1988), I started working as a visual artist and photographer. In addition, I have always been active organisationally and administratively. For instance, I was head of a photography department at a course institute in Arnhem, gave courses myself at Canon Image Centre in Amsterdam, worked as national advisor for amateur photography and managed the Photography schools in Amsterdam and Apeldoorn. I was president of the professional association for photographers GKf for seven years and of the copyright organisation PhotoAnonymous (FotoA…