"My studio is all around me. I think that I have the biggest studio in the world..."

Hein was born in 1959 in South Africa. At school he excelled at art but went on to study engineering at the insistence of everybody else. Not that he was bad at art, but at the time, art was not seen as an occupation for men who were serious about a career. He earned his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Pretoria in 1983 and is still professionally involved in engineering. He has been involved in the design of armaments, train brakes, ships and mining equipment.

To satisfy his creative needs he started photography as a serious hobby while still at University and was co-founder of one of Pretoria's most active photography clubs. He quickly found a niche in Glamour Photography owing to his love of beauty, composition, and technical skills. With glamour he could create and manipulate the outcome and not just reproduce what is there as in nature photography.

He is increasingly using his computer skills (from engineering) to add to his darkroom skills in creating out of the ordinary glamour photographs. The debate of what is art and what is photography does not exist for him. Everything is art and the camera, darkroom, computer, paintbrush, etc. are all just tools to be used to achieve the final result.

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