Jeffry Ruigendijk
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Photography had been a hobby during all those travels, but back in Holland I decided to see if I could make a living of it. I started assisting the renown Dutch portrait photographer Tessa Posthuma de Boer to learn more. One day, after assisting Tessa with the making of a portrait of the Dutch prime minister, I met a demonstrating Syrian outside the minister’s offices. He told me about the Kurdish struggles, and their current attempt at self-rule. This made me curious, so I went there.