1975-2001: Dutch History Photo Commissions > Jan Everhard
Bussum, 1951
Autodidact Everhard has worked as a photojournalist since 1975. He worked for ‘NRC Handelsblad’ from 1978 to 1981 and for ‘De Volkskrant’ from 1981 till 1994. Everhard than specialized in parliamentary and social photography. He photographed works councils, strikes and demonstrations.
From the seventies onwards Everhard photographed refugees. In 1996 this resulted in a book ‘Een vrijplaats voor een vluchteling, fotoboek over asielzoeken in Nederland’. (‘A sanctuary for a refugee, a book of photographs about seeking asylum in The Netherlands’)
Works by Everhard have appeared in various photographers journals such as ‘Perspectief’ and ‘Plaatwerk’ .Besides working as a photographer Everhard also teaches photography at the ‘Technisch College’ in Ede.