Sea, travel and coasts are important themes in the work of Leo Divendal (Netherlands, 1947). They are visually rich subjects, but for him they are also metaphors for the uncertain and transient character of human existence. Divendal prefers to work in serial form, and concentrates on making series of photographs in which the pictures tell a story in their mutual coherence with one another. He tries to touch the core of the matter through working laterally around it - a manner of working in which prose and poetry touch one another.

He has produced various books, including the monograph 'Divendal' (1997), 'The Broken Bridge' (1996, about a small village in Anatolia, Turkey), and 'Sea of Marmara' (2000), for which he photographed ships anchored in the roadstead of Istanbul. In addition to being a photographer, Divendal is also a freelance curator, writer, poet and photography instructor at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.