Ed van der Elsken bekijkt tijdens zijn wereldreis een filmrol, Gerda van der Veen, 1960
Ed van der Elsken was 34 when, in 1959, he and his wife Gerda van der Veen embarked on a thirteen-month world tour. While he developed his rolls of film along the way, he only began making prints for a book after coming home. It was finally published in 1966, six years after his return, under the title Sweet Life. Here he is scrutinizing a roll of film on his car trip through America.