Margrieta Jeltema was born under Northern skies, in the Netherlands. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Italy, Algeria, the Caribbean, Chile, Portugal, and Romania. During her biology studies with a major in philosophy at Wageningen (the Netherlands), Margrieta started with a variety of studies in bronze casting, painting, etching, and ceramics. Her work embraces poetry, sculpture, but her main creative outlet is photography. Her love for the material world of ancient cameras, with their glass plates and gelatin films, extends itself naturally into the making of prints, all kinds of prints.