Jacobus Rentmeester

Jacobus Rentmeester

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He was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1936. After rowing for the Duth Olmpic Team in Rome in 1960, Rentmeester emigrated to the US to study photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He earned is bachelor of Fine arts in photography in 1965 and immediately started works as a freelance photographer for Life magazine. He won the world press award in 1967 for his covering of the Vietnam war.