Eigenzinnige en creatieve trouwreportage - fotograaf Hans van Nunen

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My husband and fellow photographer Hans van Nunen of Artstudio23 makes beautiful and obstinate wedding reportages, check out this new, most creative portfolio wedding album of his latest work.

Looking for a nice present?

www.blurb.com/user/store/MeRy71 ...why not buy a reasonable priced photobook?? I've published a number of photobooks with Blurb.com, they're all printed on Premium Paper, online preview,
shipping worldwide

80 pages of fun, over 99 brides Trashed their weddingdresses on 09-09-09 @ the Scheveningen Beach in the Netherlands. Most recent publication about it: www.Boston.com/bigpicture :) we hit #8 in this line-up of "big pictures on the shoreline" November 2009.

Portfolio of my combined photos, old street card photos merge into one new image with close-ups of Dutch flowers.

Tantetje (Auntie) is a portrait of the Dutch house of a 100 year old lady of Breda, the Netherlands.


There's one book that's not available tru Blurb: PURE. Proud young mothers my photobook about young mothers age 16-22, posing nude, pregant or with their baby...they chose LIFE Preview HERE
If you wish I'll send the translation of the texts too -the stories of 9 of the women and facts & figures of teenage pregnancy in the Netherlans- without any extra charge, just leave me a message!

November

Fall, Breda, the Netherlands

The last leafs fell down from the trees...now it's not so colorfull outside anymore, but kinda dark and grey...boring? I dunno. Maybe. I like the sun, but I also like the night. It's the cold I can't stand haha ;)
But so far so good, we haven't had any really bad bad days yet, and snow & ice aren't in NL untill Jan/Feb most likely. No white Xmas for us, that hasn't happen in years.

We do have some Christmas weddings this December, and at the moment I am very busy with the natural redhead shoots. I like portraits. I like people. I like photography. Tho abandoned places are cool too, I just love to explore an abandoned area for 'Traces Of Silence'. Often it's a portrait too, of the people who lived or worked in that area or building...without seeing them in the picture.

If you are looking for a photobook about urban exploring: have a look HERE at my Traces Of Silence book, available worldwide tru Blurb. Online preview available. Excellent Christmas gift. Cadeau tip!

Natural Redheads

Natural redhead Joep posing au naturel :)

At the moment I am busy with a lot of photoshoots with natural redheads, as I am doing a 3rd (and final?) study of making portraits of people with ginger hair. Check MeRy.nl/rood, for more info about this art project.

It started with helping out painter and organisor Bart Rouwenhorst with his Redheadday in 2007, as I did some promotional/publicity shots and I worked on the project Red-On-Red, during the Roodharigendag (Redheadday). Red-On-Red portraits are also available as a photobook.

In 2008 my husband and fellow photographer Hans van Nunen of our studio Artstudio23 Artstudio23 in Breda, the Netherlands, worked with me on the project Medusa, which also available as a book. As Blurb is shipping worldwide, I reckon these books make an excellent and affordable Christmas gifts :)

This year I was too busy to work during the Redheadday, so at the moment I have people coming to the studio. It actually works 10 times better, more relaxed and faster. Yes, I did 100 women in 2 hours in 2007, but...at this moment we can chat a bit more model-to-photographer and we have less stressed photoshoots than during the redheaddays. So it works for the best this way!

Results (again a photobook) will be available in spring 2010.

Now available: final version of my photobook 09-09-09 99 brides Trash the Dress!

Trash The Dres...

99 brides "trashed...

By MeRy/Melanie Rijke...

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Available worldwide: the photobook of the mass Trash the Dress by photographer MeRy (Melanie Rijkers) on 09-09-09. Over 99 brides trashing their wedding dresses for an artistic shoot by Artstudio23 Breda on the beach of Scheveningen.

U can order the book HERE or preview HERE or use Blurb.com
search for MeRy71 :) there's more photos on Hyves as well

Beautiful Valerie

Lovely Valerie posing for me in postpop art style

I met Valerie for another project, about the integration of eldery people. She was one of the grandchildren who listened to a story told by a grandparent. I did a series of portraits for the brochure and also the portraits were printed big size on the bus which shows the film shot from them telling/listening to each other.

Photobook 09-09-09 published

Hi, am so proud: on 20-09-2009 (we put the day before the month in NL) I managed to publish the photobook about our big event on 09-09-09: Trash The Dress with over 99 brides in the Northsea, Scheveningen, the Netherlands. U can order the book HERE or preview HERE or use Blurb.com
search for MeRy71 :) there's more photos on Hyves as well