Circus Royal
1994The circus had long been a theme explored by famous photographers; work by Bruce Davidson and Diane Arbus showed me it should be not too difficult to get imagery that shows life in a world which is not ours.
I decided to follow the Dutch ‘Circus Royal’ on their tour around the Netherlands and made these ‘documentary’ pictures as well as a series of portraits, which led to my first publication in the national newspaper Trouw.
Four portraits were used to illustrate a story about the struggle of circus-life.