Photographer Cees van Veelen

Cees van Veelen, lives and works at this moment in Hoorn near Amsterdam.
When he was 14 years old the magic of photography and the darkroom became his live. At that age, he already entered in photo competitions and won the second price in a contest of Vrij Nederland in 1956.
Cees van Veelen his education was on the Amsterdam Graphic Academy (AGS), the Photo professional school in The Haque and L’Ecole de Photography and Cinematography in Paris. During his study Cees van Veelen travelled to Turkey, and in that time Persia, the Sahara and North-African countries to photograph there.

In 1962 he opened a studio in Amsterdam as commercial photographer working for: advertising, fashion, architectual and product photography. Clients where a.o. The Telegraaf, DAF, JWT, Railbouw, Prad, VNU, HVR, Vita Nova, etc.
Besides commercial photography he is also working as an autonomous photographer which resulted in assigments for art projects. Trough assigments from Marriot, Ramada and Esso Motor Hotels he visited all West-European countries. For the printing company Vita Nova he travelled to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka to shoot travel locations and Hotels.

Cees van Veelen as a globetrotter emigrated from Holland to Canada in 1980 to live and work in Calgary. He build his own studio and in a short time, he enters the fast lane. Clients as CP Air, Hayhurst, Westcan, Baker Lovick, Western Living, Richfield and Simon Dow etc. kept him very busy. In 1985 Cees van Veelen started with computers to use for his work.
Ventura Xerox en Pagemaker the first programs for dtp and design used by the magazine ‘Key tot Calgary’. Autonomous he started to photograph the Canadian indians and visited the countries Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominican Republic en Mexico. In 1990 Cees Van Veelen returned to Holland because his former wife wanted to go back. Picking up contacts with artist and friends in Amsterdam and Hoorn, he got a studio in Hoorn and started a Photo-Dtp-Studio. Besides his work, he is helping and advising artist with computer techology within there field of work. The photographs of Cees van Veelen are published in many magazines and exhibited in o.a. the Bibliotheek Landsmeer, Capi-Lux Amsterdam, Haags Gemeente Museum and Galerie De Meerse in Hoofddorp etc. Up till now his autonomous photography is still made on his travels all over the world, where he alone travels into the deep inlands of Africa , South America and Asia to photograph the people and landscapes.

LPI Joep Neefjes