Born in the Hillegom bulb district as the sun of a local butcher, Dirk Haster preferred developing his photography skills instead of following his fathers footsteps.
He found tutorship on the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy by famous photographers as Hans Versnel, Kees Heemskerk and Piet Groot.
Dirk Haster was especially interested in the audiovisual field.
After finishing the Rietveld Academy he produced slideshow's, video's and films for business, television and cinema.
He completed his studies at the Amsterdam University as a qualified audiovisual teacher and brought it into practice at the Haarlem Art school Kreater.

Dirk continued with numerous documentaries and short films, shortlists in:
-1981: 'AV in Noord-Holland' (Audio Visuals in Northern Holland) a 50 minute documentary about Audio Visuals in education.
-1984: 'Alles in één doos' (All in one box) computers in education and libraries.
-1985 VPRO: 'De Tovenaarsleerling' (The Sorcerers Pupil)
Kids touched by the magic of classical music. In co-production with Added Films Dirk Schreiner direction Marion Bloem.
-1989 NOS: 'Filmfabriek Hollandia' (Hollandia Film factory)
Maurits Binger's first industrial filmmaking in Holland from 1910 to 1923, directed by Guy Molin after Gerard Soeteman's scenery, Jakob Klaassen and Lin Friedman signed for music and editing.
-1992: 'Haarlemmerhout, Natuur Verzuurd' (Haarlem Woods, Soured Nature), after the decline of a 400 years, historical city forest.

The ninety's brought all audiovisual arts together in a wide variety of multimedia programs, web sites and other applications.
-1998: 'Tiefstack Hamburg' (Energy Hamburg) Company profile for the power-station of the city of Hamburg.
-2002: 'Het Goochelkabinet' (The Magicians Cabinet) for the famous Teylers Museum is a combination of film and graphics brought together as a Touch Screen application. The Magicians Cabinet is a set of 17th century magician tools newly donated to the Teylers Museum collection. The Touch Screen sets them in use as a magical experience.

-2006: In co-operation with Maria van Vlijmen and Gonda Koster, Dirk Haster completes his first book Haarlemse Huiskamers, café's people and their stories about the café as an extension to the living room.
-2007: At the moment Dirk Haster works on a book about Simón Bolívar the South American Liberator who still has his echo's in South America today.