Dutch photographers

Ralph Jacobs cyanotypes

Ralf Jacobs

Ralf Jacobs is our first cyanotype artist making prints with a laser. He also superimposes laser harmonograms over photographic images in cyanotype. From: Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Shows: Cyanotypes. Ralf Jacobs was born in 1985 in a suburb of Eindhoven – a city known for its technologic development – and in a family where his father was an engineer. It seemed inevitable that Ralf would follow in his father’s footsteps. Ralf … Read more

Cyanotype by Cissy Spoelstra

Cissy Spoelstra

Cissy Spoelstra, from Leiden, The Netherlands works in photography, art and design and has recently started exploring cyanotypes. She loves experimenting with materials such as glass. From: Leiden, The Netherlands. Shows: Cyanotypes. Cissy Spoelstra is a Dutch photographer, based in Leiden. She studied creative photography at the Photo Academy in Amsterdam and worked as a photographer until march 2020 when she was forced to stay at home due to the … Read more

Geertjan Plooijer saltprint

Geertjan Plooijer

Geertjan Plooijer was inspired by his parents who had a strong interest in photography. Geertjan works with large format photography and uses processes like cyanotype, salt prints and vandykes. Born: The Netherlands, lives: Mörlunda, Sweden Shows: Cyanotypes, Salt prints and Vandykes. Geertjan was born in 1957 in Utrecht the Netherlands and now lives in Mörlunda in Sweden. Both his parents where photographing and filming. When getting his first camera at … Read more

Picto Benelux photo group logo

Picto Benelux Photographic group

Picto Benelux is a photographic group with artists from Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg working in alternative photographic processes. From: Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg. Shows: Daguerrotype, Carbon prints, Bromoils, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Heliogravures, Orotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes, Platinum print, Solargraphy, Sury prints, Vandykes. PICTO Benelux brings together photographers from Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg and neighboring areas, interested in historic photographic processes corresponding to their artistic sensitivity, wishing to share the … Read more

Jan Van Leeuwen

Jan Van Leeuwen

Jan Van Leeuwen was born in 1932 in Amsterdam and is now a renowned cyanotype artist showing his alternative photographic process prints. From: Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Shows: Cyanotypes and Kallitypes. Jan Van Leeuwen was born in 1932 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work has been published in countless of publications, fromThe photo reviewto most recently inArt in Americaand exhibited around the world. Jan also give lectures from time to time. … Read more