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"The older I get, the better I was"
"Some men find success boring, even distasteful."
Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus
"He could sit on a fence, watching a worm
and wondering what on earth it was up to, for hours at a stretch."
P.G. Wodehouse, The Aunt and the Sluggard
Harrie's enormously talented. Santiago | Harrie will never get rich! Annelies |
There's no future in being ahead of your times.
Harrie Verstappen
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings.
Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
Aleksandr L. Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago, VII p. 455
My Oblituary:
C.V.
of Harrie Verstappen
(such as it is—I hate these things)
Worked for photo importer Imag, the Hague, staff 63-64; photo trade publisher CIBAF n.v., staff 64-66. Established VistaFilm, 64, for distribution of Japanese movies in Holland.
Meanwhile, published photographs and articles in Tiq, Skoop, Muziek Expres, Pop Foto, NRC-Handelsblad, Algemeen Dagblad, Vrij Nederland. Worked as a sound technician for Dutch television (68-70) and as a still photographer in Dutch feature film production from 69. Also wrote some scripts and directed some movies. His photographs have been published in virtually all Dutch newspapers and magazines and many international publications. First Dutch film sound engineer to use wireless microphones and the 'puppy'.
Moved back to Curaçao, 78; did sound, light and cinematography for film and TV productions, but mainly still photography. Also made some movies. Ran a farm (eggs, game, honey) in the mid 80s. Recently moved operations into the digital age and is working on a Virtual Reality simulation of Curaçao island upon discovery and later.
Director of Fotomatiko del Caribe n.v. since 1987. Married an architect (well, frankly, not at that time) 1968; collaborates with her in landscaping adapted to local tropical desert conditions. One daughter, 1986.
Participated in international conference Workshop Voedsel, Holland 1985; founding board member of Netherlands Antilles authors organization Corpus Mysticum, 1994; co-organizer Congresses "Bario 2000" and "Barionan, Base pa un Nashon", 2001.
Postal address:
Plantage Bai Klaas
Curaçao LP73
Neth. Antilles AN
voice/fax + 5999-864-8012
e-mail:
Webmaster:
Marquis' Who's Who
They have put me in their International edition for some reason. Well, actually I do know the reason: Marquis just seems to send all subscribers to the Smithsonian Magazine a form. And maybe for other prestigious publications. I thought it the joke of the year.
In January 2003 I applied for a record with the Guinness Book of Records as the poorest man who ever made it to Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry, where, later, I got listed as well. But Guinness let me know they didn't think it much of a record.
I don't think I'm still listed in Marquis'; it's very important to them that those in their books take that seriously.
Credits include:
I keep adding to this list. Much of this stuff can be found elsewhere on this site.
Others I'd just as soon forget about have a nasty habit of popping up and ruining my minute.
Then, for the sake of Gründlichkeit, I sighingly put them in.
| DE BOSDUIVELTJES | AN/Curaçao | 1952 | stage operetta | actor |
| FORUM ACADEMIALE | NL (Holland) | 58-60 | magazine | Nijmegen editor |
| VOX CAROLINA | NL | 58-60 | magazine | stories/articles |
| SALVO | NL | 1961 | magazine | short story |
| THE KINKS | NL | 1966 | magazine article | photographer |
| YAYOI KUSAMA | NL | 1967 | magazine article | writer & photographer |
| FRANK ZAPPA & The Mothers of Invention | NL | 1968 | magazine article | photographer |
| EIGHT MILES HIGH | NL | 1969 | tv-film | stills |
| EIGHT MILES HIGH | NL | 1969 | record sleeve | photographer |
| DROP OUT | NL | 1969 | feature film | stills |
| OVERAL ZIJN INDIANEN DES INDIENS PARTOUT | NL | 1969 | tv-film | sound engineer/ still photographer |
| NEBU MEUBELEN | NL | 1970 | catalogue | photographer |
| DENNIS POTTER | NL | 1970 | tv-film | sound engineer |
| ILEANA MELITA | NL | 1969 | tv-film | sound engineer |
| THE CATS | NL | 1969 | tv-film show | sound engineer |
| THE SHEPHARDS | NL | 1969 | tv-film show | sound engineer |
| WILMA in KOPENHAGEN | NL | 1969 | tv-film show | sound engineer |
| POETS | NL | 1969/1970 | candid camera tv-series | sound engineer |
| MUSICI VOOR VIETNAM | NL | 1969 | tv-film reportage | sound engineer |
| DICHTERS VOOR VIETNAM | NL | 1969 | tv-film reportage | sound engineer |
| JORIS IVENS | NL | 1970 | tv-film reportage | sound engineer |
| STAMPING GROUND AKA Love and Music - Rock Fieber | NL | 1971 | feature film Holland Pop Festival | sound camera |
| BLUE MOVIE | NL | 1971 | feature film | still photographer |
| KAPSALON | NL | 1972 | film short | still photographer |
| VERGEET UW RIB NIET, MENEER! | NL | 1972 | mixed stage/movie | cinematographer |
| VD | NL | 1972 | feature film | still photographer |
| FRANK & EVA/LIVING APART TOGETHER | NL | 1972 | feature film | still photographer |
| SHIP-TO-SHIP TRANSFER | Curaçao | 1972 | documentary film | cinematographer |
| DAKOTA | NL | 1972 | feature film | co-scriptwriter/still photographer |
| COSMIC COMICS | USA-NL | 1973 | filmograph | director |
| Grenoble Festival du Court Métrage (hors concours) | Atlanta Film Festival | 1st Hollywood Erotic Film & Video Festival (honorable mention) | ||
| STRAF | NL | 1973 | film short | still photographer |
| ALICIA | NL | 1973 | feature film | still photographer |
| MY NIGHTS WITH [everybody but you] | NL | 1974 | feature film | still photographer |
| MENS, ERGER JE NIET! | NL | 1975 | feature film | still photographer |
| PASTORALE 1943 | NL | 1977 | feature film | still photographer |
| GRIJPSTRA & DE GIER | NL | 1979 | feature film | still photographer |
| ANTIYAS, TRIANGULO PA FUTURO | AN | 1980 | documentary film | sound engineer/ still photographer/ 2nd unit cinematographer |
| MOSAIKO KULTURAL | NA | 1980 | documentary film | sound engineer/ still photographer/ 2nd unit cinematographer |
| ANESCO | AN | 1981 | tv-film commercial | director & special effects |
| HET VERBODEN BACCHANAAL | NL | 1982 | feature film | still photographer |
| COMWEST | AN | 1982 | tv-film commercial | director & special effects |
| CURAÇAO CANDLE FACTORY | AN | 1983 | tv-film commercial | director & special effects |
| ZWARTE RUITER | NL | 1984 | feature film | still photographer |
| HISTORIA DI KORSOW | AN | 1985 | tv-series | co-script writer/ production stills |
| $CORPIO SCRAPBOOK 1965-1976 | NL | 1985 | book | photographer |
| PENTAGRAM | AN | 1986 | tv telenovela | light |
| ANTILLIAANS VERHAAL | NL-AN | 1987 | tv-film series | sound engineer 2nd unit |
| Tony Sherman | NL-AN | ~1987 | video clip | light |
| KAPRISHO ANTIANO | AN | 1988 | tv-film documentary | sound engineer |
| RHYTHMS AND CARESSES | NL-AN | 1989 | tv-documentary | sound engineer |
| YOU CAN'T WALK HOME | NL-AN | 1989 | tv-documentary | sound engineer |
| MUHE GRANDI | NL-AN | 1989 | tv-documentary | sound engineer |
| CANTIKO CARIBE | NL-AN | 1990 | tv-documentary | sound engineer/ still photographer |
| WHERE THE DREAM BEGINS | Aruba | 1991 | tv-documentary | sound engineer |
| EDGAR PALM EN OTRABANDA | NL-AN Los Angeles Video Festival | 1992 | musical documentary | director/producer |
| HET CURAÇAOSCH MUSEUM | AN | 1990s | Reproductions | photographer |
| ELLEN SPIJKSTRA: CERAMICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY | AN | 1994 | book | reproductions/ photographer |
| THE STORY OF MY LIFE | AN | 1995 | autobiography | |
| DEL CURAZAO QUE SE FUÉ | AN | 1996 | Virtual Reality demo | director/producer |
| VANUIT DE BLAUWZWARTE DIEPTE | NL-AN | 1988 | book | photographs/ reproductions |
| OUWE WIJVEN | AN | 1998 | joint exhibition | b/w photographs |
| LOVE FOREVER | USA-UK-J | 97-99 | Yayoi Kusama exhibition | photograph |
| Los Angeles County Museum | Museum of Modern Art, New York | Walker Art Center | Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art | |
| SONRISAS MUSICALES | AN | 1998 | CD-cover | photography |
| THE WERBATA MAPS-1: Curaçao | AN | 1999 | CD-ROM | producer |
| DISICLIN | AN | 2001 | tv-commercial | animation |
| THE WERBATA MAPS-2: The Colony of Curaçao & Willemstad | AN | 2003 | CD-ROM | producer |
| NO KAI | AN | 2007 | Feature Film | light |
| THE PINK FLOYD | NL | 2007 | Book | photography |
| KUSAMA, PRINCESS OF POLKA DOTS | USA | 2007 | Trailer Feature Doc | photography |
| POP BRITANNIA | UK | 2008 | TV series | photography |
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