Jaap Buitendijk grew up in Holland. He travelled extensively as a teenager and moved to Britain in 1990. It was during his travels that he first picked up a camera and began to grow his passion for photography. He studied documentary photography at Newport School of Art and here he explored the apparent contradiction of using documentary skills to record an artificial reality; that of films. He was awarded a first class honours degree and the Fuji Professional Award for Film Stills, in 1996.
Since then Jaap has established himself as an experienced stills photographer, with a reputation for looking beyond the obvious. At home on sets of major productions such as Gladiator, Harry Potter and Hugo, as well as smaller projects such as In Bruges, The Constant Gardener and Girl With A Pearl Earring, his work shows versatility and commitment to the still photography of cinema and the fascinating opportunity to capture the mechanics of film making itself.
Away from film sets, Jaap will most likely be providing life support to one of his classic cars whilst listening to No Agenda, an open source internet radio project of which he is a founding producer. Jaap is a member of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth.
