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NL12
Nieuwe Leliestraat 12
1015 SP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+3120 4213945

NL12 is the name of Leo Erken's Amsterdam based workshop.
At NL12 we develop and produce journalistic stories for printed media as well as for television. We also help other organisations with the production of books, films and exhibitions.

Leo Erken (1964) is an Amsterdam based photographer and film maker. He studied photography at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede, the Netherlands, from 1983 till 1988. As a student, he travelled on numerous occasions to Poland and other countries in the former communist bloc. After graduating in 1988, he continued to follow the developments in eastern Europe and covered the revolutions in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary for Dutch national newspapers. In 1991, he moved his work area to the former Soviet Union, visiting more than fifty times such countries as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Georgia.
Besides his travels he worked in the Netherlands on various photography and art projects. In the late nineties he partly moved to documentary film making.
Since 2007 he is also a teacher in photography at the Royal Academy of Art (Kabk) in the Hague.

The photographs of Leo Erken are represented by Laif in Germany and Panos in the United Kingdom.

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