About this site
This site is dedicated to the online sale of images. Every effort has been made to make it as easy as possible for users of images to select, buy and download images. We hope you will enjoy browsing and selecting images.
The images online are currently less than 5% of the images available but this percentage will increase over time. If you have any specific needs, please feel free to contact us with the details of what you are looking for.
As always, the images reflect the personal history and outlook of the photographer. For the different photographers exhibiting images on this site, that personal profile is as follows.
Dirk R Frans
As a child I had the privilege of seeing the sun-bathed beaches of Trinidad, the tropical forests in Nigeria, the herds of elephants on the savannes in Gabon and 1001 kinds of fish in the transparent waters of the Gulf of Oman. It is there that must have started seeing the beauty of colours, shapes, patterns and people. Even then I would occasionally borrow my father's Kodak Retina IIIC camera and make a picture. When I left for Bangladesh in 1976 my father gave me the camera, starting off my career in photography.
My first long assignment abroad was in Bangladesh. From the first day I arrived in Bangladesh I have been taking pictures of this beautiful country and its people. I must have over 25.000 slides and another 5,000 digital images by now… Originally I only took pictures as a hobby. After a few years my camera packed up due to the humidity and fungus growth. Because my allowance as a volunteer did not allow me to buy a new camera, I bought a second hand one. I first used it to shoot 6 films at a site here in Bangladesh where 13,000 labourers closed-off the one km wide Feni River in 6 hours. I ended up with only 3 good pictures as it turned out that the camera's meter was faulty. I was furious and decided that would never happen again! I borrowed money and bought a new Nikon N401 and two lenses. Then I started selling pictures to pay off the debt. Apart from direct sales, I now mainly sell pictures though three picture libraries, Drik Gallery in Bangladesh, Lineair in Holland and Hutchison in the UK.
The focus of my pictures is countries and their people in development, particularly Bangladesh. I major on the positive side of life as the negative, the poverty, the floods and cyclones get enough attention anyway from professional colleagues flying in at the time of trouble.
For my work as a sociologist I have travelled on short assignments to Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Morocco, Rwanda and Uzbekistan. The pictures I sell end up in textbooks, development magazines, tourist brochures and books. Occasionally I do specific photographic assignments.
In 1991 I moved from being a volunteer to becoming a consultant. With the much higher income I was able to buy a 'complete' Nikon set. From 1991 till 2003 I used the F90 and the F100, the former usually with colour negative film and the later with slide film. In 2004 I moved to digital photography using a Nikon D70 camera. I use four lenses: 12-24 f4.0 G, 20mm f2.8, 30-70mm f2.8 and 80-200mm f2.8. I use two flashes, an SB 28 and an SB800. However, in the end it is not the equipment that determines the beauty of the images, but my imagination. Good quality equipment allows me to concentrate on the non-technical aspects of an image. It also ensures that the pictures are technically of sufficient quality to be published.
I love photography because it gives me almost instant results and I can control most of what goes into the end product. As such it is the opposite of my work as a consultant/sociologist where 1001 factors influence the outcome and it often takes years before I see results!
Luuk Frans
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David Frans
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