Education
In the 1960s he moved to the United States and studied photography at the Art Center College in Los Los Angeles
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Ko Rentmeester
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He later became a photojournalist and covered the Vietnam war among other newsworthy events. Rentmeester competed for the Netherlands at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts, Rentmeester started his career as a freelance photographer in 1965 for Life Magazine.
He first covered the Watts Riots in Los Angeles, documenting many of the dramatic events, which earned him his first accolades as a photographer.
Between 1966 and 1969 Rentmeester was in Asia, where he particularly covered the Vietnam war. One of his pictures showed the commander of an M48 Patton looking through his lens.
After Rentmeester was wounded by a Vietcong sniper near Saigon, he returned to the United States. In 1972, his pictures from a travel through Indonesia were shown in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In the following years, Rentmeester worked for several magazines as a photojournalist and as an advertising photographer.
Achievements
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1967: World Press Photo of the Year, 1st prize 1972: World Press Photo, 1st prize in category Sports 1976: New York Art Directors Club award for his photo essay on Thomas Jefferson 1979: World Press Photo: 2nd prize in category Color picture stories 1980: Missouri School of Journalism, award for an essay on the United States. Air Force 2001: KLM Paul Huf Award.
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Netherlands
Awards
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World Press Photo of the Year 1967: World Press Photo of the Year, 1st prize 1972: World Press Photo, 1st prize in category Sports 1976: New York Art Directors Club award for his photo essay on Thomas Jefferson 1979: World Press Photo: 2nd prize in category Color picture stories 1980: Missouri School of Journalism, award for an essay on the U.S. Air Force 2001: KLM Paul Huf AwardWorld Press Photo of the Year 1967: World Press Photo of the Year, 1st prize 1972: World Press Photo, 1st prize in category Sports 1976: New York Art Directors Club award for his photo essay on Thomas Jefferson 1979: World Press Photo: 2nd prize in category Color picture stories 1980: Missouri School of Journalism, award for an essay on the U.S. Air Force 2001: KLM Paul Huf Award