Sijtje was a legendary souvenir seller on Marken. Partly because of her, Marken became a tourist attraction. The shop and the recreated interior of a typical Marken home soon became an unmissable stopover for countless celebrities from home and abroad.
"It is part of the photographer's job to look more intensely than most other people. It is the attitude of a child seeing the world for the first time or of a traveller visiting a foreign land."
Bill Brandt, English photographer (1904 - 1983)..
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