Fenno Werkman

(The Hague, 1956) is solely responsible for saving a treasure trove of images: filmmakers, musicians and TV producers from around the world knock on his doors to see their own histories. Starting out as a pop-music photographer with a preference for The Beatles, he soon discovered that broadcasters and other media companies treated historic material quite sloppily. Soon his collection was literally overflowing his house. It now encompasses a dizzying 1.5 million films and at least 300,000 videotapes. As an image researcher, Werkman delivers a lot of unique imagery, including for Dutch TV programs such as Nacht van de Popmuziek (Night of Pop Music) and Top 2000 with Matthijs van Nieuwskerk and Leo Blokhuis.