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Studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. He started working at the IISH in 1984, with the Image and Sound department. From 1990 to 1995 he worked at the National Trades Union Museum in Amsterdam, where he organized exhibitions on social history and social art. Returning to the IISH, he became responsible for collection development Image and Sound. He headed the department of Digital Projects from 2000 until mid 2008. Since then, he has been working on many projects involving digitization of the IISH collections and presenting the results online. He is responsible for the digitization project 'Collection De Centrale' (see www.iisg.nl/news/megabytes-marx.php). Besides this, he has kept working on the Institute's collection of Chinese propaganda posters (see chineseposters.net).
He is member of the Coordination Committee of the International Association of Labour History Institutions, treasurer of the Chinese Posters Foundation, and member of the Editorial Committee of the Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (http://www.iisg.nl/bwsa).