Dutch photographers – AlternativePhotography.com

Marian Verkerk

Marian Verkerk is a visual artist whose work explores memory, time, and impermanence through experimental photographic processes, combining cyanotype, lumen prints, chemograms, and hybrid analogue–digital techniques. From: Friesland, the Netherlands Shows: Cyanotypes, duotones and tri colour, and Lumen prints Marian Verkerk is a visual artist working with experimental photographic processes that challenge the stability of the image. Combining cyanotype, lumen printing, chemograms, Van Dyke brown, and hybrid analogue–digital approaches, my … Read more

Lucrees van Groningen

Lucrees van Groningen specialises in palladium and three-color gum printing. Her handcrafted prints explore themes like decay, memory, and everyday beauty, blending technical precision with a deep appreciation for slow, tactile processes. From: Deventer, The Netherlands Shows: Gum bichromates, Gum over Palladium, and Palladium prints Lucrees van Groningen is a Dutch photographer who specializes in palladium printing and three-colour gum printing. Photography has been a lifelong passion for Lucrees, beginning … Read more

Hiske Dooper

Hiske Dooper, a modern dance teacher and PSYCH-K® Facilitator in Arnhem, discovered cyanotype photography during the 2020 lockdown. She enjoys the balance of control and unpredictability in her art, embracing imperfections in her creative process. From: Arnhem, The Netherlands Shows: Cyanotypes It started with a beer on the balcony. Boyfriend Peter noticed that a fuchsia looked pretty much like a fairy and the other image thinker Hiske immediately thought that … Read more

Els Wiering

Dutch visual artist Els Wiering resides in Málaga, Spain. After a career in ICT, she pursued Fine Arts at the Academy of Minerva, Groningen. Her work, evolving from solid sculptures to airy expressions, explores reductionism and joyful minimalism, often utilising the cyanotype process to depict Costa del Sol’s summer essence. From: Málaga, Spain Shows: Cyanotypes Elsiena Wiering is a Dutch visual artist living in Málaga Spain since 2017. She grew … Read more

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

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

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 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 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