Ton Mestrom is a Dutch photographer who walks the streets of Europe. As a street and documentary photographer he prefers B&W because it suits his work best.
Mestrom picked up his first camera, a Mamiya rangefinder that belonged to his father, when he was about twelve but photography was no more than a hobby until he was about twenty years old. There was only one way to find out if there was more to be had out of his photography so eventually he started at an Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium where he studied photography for four years. Since then he's had both solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in various art galleries.
Current projects involve a behind the scenes documentary on a local short oval racing track. It will be published by the end of 2012.
When he's not out shooting his own work he's retouching work of other photographers.
