Photographer
Wendelien Daan
www.wendeliendaan.nl
www.instagram.com/wendeliendaan
for contact/collabs please send an email to:
mail@wendeliendaan.nl
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MARIE VALAT
21 avenue de Tourville 75007 Paris
Fondatrice et agent
+ 33 (0)6 22 80 25 80
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Wendelien Daan is an accomplished photographer, visual artist, creative director, DOP and short-film director. She creates a unique and vaguely disturbing atmosphere in all her images, by the use of light and situations which makes you wonder what you are looking at. In her photographs she observes her subject in an abstract and surreal approach. She empowers their beauty in a way that it embraces imperfection, and often zooms in to transform shapes into something unexpected. The images are used to comment on the image of today’s women. Recurring themes in her work are identity, equality, surrealism, and alienation.
She was born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1965) and spent her youth in Friesland with her parents, her two sisters and one brother. Living in the countryside gave her a lot of time playing outside and day dream. After finishing High school H.A.V.O exams, she moved to Arnhem to study Fashion Design at ArtEZ /University of the Arts, Netherlands (1983-1988).
During her study she discovered that her love of storytelling is best expressed in photography, and started working on photo projects with fellow students, among which were fashion designers Viktor & Rolf.
In 1989 she moved to Amsterdam and received a fund for Photography that same year, to be able to enlarge her personal portfolio. She was an assistant photographer between 1992-1995, in which she developed her technical photography skills through working with old school technical 4x5” analog cameras as well as, at that time, the introduction of digital camera-backs and Apple computers with image manipulation software.
Between 2000 and 2005 she spent most of her time in NY and Paris and started working for the big names in the industry like Paris Vogue, The Face, Italian Amica, and commercial clients like Neiman Marcus and Nike.
After 911 in NY, where she was present at the time, she moved back to Amsterdam and put her focus more on the European market.
Since 2005, after her daughter was born, she is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
She lives with her family and two cats, loves good coffees and home cooked meals. Together with her husband, they are serious : ) Ducatisti and enjoy (outdoor) sports like running, cycling, skiing, scuba diving and sailing.
Although she still loves to travel and find unusual places to shoot like burned down theaters in Lebanon for ELLE Middle East, Unesco town 'Ait Benhaddou' in Morocco for Harpers Bazaar NL , on the streets of Tokyo for LINDA Magazine and on Diamond Beach - Jökulsárlón Iceland shooting a personal project, she is also very at ease in a studio in her beloved Amsterdam.
published in:
Vogue (Paris, Netherlands, Ukraine, Arabia, Russia), Harpers Bazaar (Netherlands, Arabia, Japan, Turkey, Spain, China, Russia) the Face, i-D, Wallpaper, Nylon, AD Magazine (Germany, France), Jalouse, Elle (USA, Netherlands), Fucking Young (Spain), Best Fashion (Germany), Tush (Germany), CitizenK (France), Surface (USA), DUTCH, The Face, Mixte, Italian Amica, Vman, Visionaire, Flaunt, Oyster (Australia), Financial Times (How to Spend it) Italy , New York Magazine, Marie Claire (USA, NL), Madame Figaro (France, Spain), Glamour (Germany, Netherlands), Newspaper Supplements of Newspapers NRC/Volkskrant/Parool/Financieel Dagblad, LINDA Magazine, l’HOMO, Mirror Mirror, ao.
Exhibitions:
2023 'Icons Re/Outfitted' Dutch Design Week Eindhoven - Milan Design Week
2021 'Denim for Earth' solo outdoor exhibition Rembrandtplein Amsterdam NL
2015 ‘Photo to Fashion' Nederlands Foto Museum Rotterdam NL
2015 ‘Everything but Clothes‘ Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem NL
2013 'Gaypride'Gallery Cultural Speech Amsterdam NL
2011 'Far from Fong' Tent Rotterdam NL
2011 'Madreterra' Gallery del Cortile, Rome – Italy
2010 'Cinema Photographic' PS artspace at Pratersauna, Vienna- Austria
2009 'Gone with the Wind' Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen NL
2007 'Dutch Fantasy' Institut Neerlandais, Paris-France
2007 'Still' - Fashion Biennale Arnhem NL
2005 'Dutch Touch', Musée Galliera, Paris, France
2005 'All dressed up but nowhere to go' Solo Art-Space Witzenhausen NL
2004 'Beauty of Darkness' Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2003 'Snippets' Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem NL
2002 March: 'Fashion Photography Now' Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2002 October: Le Bon Marche / Catherine Malandrino, Paris, France
2001 February: Expo 'New Fashion Photography' Bryant Park, New York, USA
2001 'Gallery Il Cortille' Rome Italy- Dutch Touch Project with support of the Mondriaan Foundation.
2000 Gallery 'Speak For', Tokyo Japan
2000 'Int. Fashion Photography Festival', Tokyo, Kobe, Fukuoka-Japan.
Clients: Azzaro Men, Banana Republic, Bijenkorf, Christofle, Cote d’Or, DieselXBugaboo, Dutch National Ballet, Droog Design, Falke, Fashion Design Festival Arnhem, Garnier, GStarRAW, Harvey Nichols, HEMA, HULleKES, Hunkemöller, Jean Louis Scherrer, JONOFUI, Jupe by Jackie, La Redoute, Le Bon Marche, l’Oreal, Lululemon, Mauboussin, Missoni, MTV, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Nieman Marcus, Nike, Thalys, The Visionary Lab, Tommy Hilfiger, Viktor & Rolf, Vlisco, ea
Education: ArtEZ / University of the Arts - Arnhem, Netherlands
Bachelor in Fashion Design (1983-1988)
Grands: Stipendium Photography -
The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture 1990
Assistant Photographer 1993-1996 at Tobias Reymond Photography
Photographers Awards: &
PANL Members choice 1999 / Winner 2005 / Nominee 2008, 2012
DUPHO -Dutch Photographers - Nominee 2019 & 2024
Dutch National Portrait Awards:
Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize Nominee 2010
Guest lectures
Deltion College MBO-Zwolle 2021, 2023
Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag 2022
Rotterdam Grafisch Lyceum 2021
Exam Commissioner - Maastricht Institute of Arts 2018
Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten ARTEZ Arnhem 2017
TV - guest Jury Photography
Het Perfecte Plaatje -november 2022 season 11 - aflevering #4 & #11 RTL4
