Reinier Treur (b. 1961) is a photographer and editor based in the north of The Netherlands. He holds a master degree in Dutch literature and had a career in pr & communications, before he switched to fine art landscape and documentary photography. As a photographer he is mainly self taught. He uses medium format (and sometimes 35mm) analog cameras and color negative film. He is interested in the relation between mankind and the altered or changing landscape, with a particular curiosity for traces in the landscape that unveil human interventions from the past. He likes empty, dilapidated, gloomy and messy locations as much as excessively orderly and overly neat places. His work shows the beauty of what most people regard as boring and ugly landscapes.