Haje Jan Kamps

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Haje Jan Kamps (May 1981) is a Dutch photographer, writer and Journalist. He is best known for running the popular Photocritic photography blog, and for writing the book Macro Photography Photo Workshop.

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Born on May 21, 1981, Leiderdorp, South Holland to parents Hielke Kamps and Lizeth Rovers, Haje moved to Norway in 1988, and to the UK in 2001. In England, he studied Journalism, and started a stint working for different magazines.

In 2002, Haje started a website called Photocritic, which became extremely popular in December 2005, when it was featured on Slashdot¹, and subsequently got heavy coverage on Digg² and dozens of other large blogs. The blog continues to be popular.

In 2007, he wrote a book on macro photography for John Wiley & Sons publishing, entitled Macro Photography Photo Workshop.

He has worked at Future Publishing as web editor for Fast Car Magazine and T3 magazine, and now works as a senior producer at Five.tv.