Fine Art – Joeri van Veen

Photo wallpaper in a school

September 17, 2025

Some local landscape photographs of mine are used as wallpaper in a school located in that landscape. Today I visited the location to see for myself.

Best photograph of 2020

December 26, 2020

A documentary photograph of my wife’s knee operation is arguably the best one I shot in 2020. Check out the whole series, is it interesting beyond the personal aspect?

Mountain landscape

December 13, 2020

Sunset mountain landscape with the Mont Blanc, but dark. Arguably my most popular photograph to date. Shot with the Sony A7, but edited (obviously).

How to be an artist

September 12, 2016

My, sort of, artist statement. Not very original, but updated with more recent very artsy photographs of mountains.

Leaf Aptus 22 review
The definitive writeup of this stunning digital back that can be had in exchange for a turd nowadays. Pros (but at what cons?) of the Leaf Aptus 22!Read now
French ways
The long anticipated blog post of how my wife and I are doing in France, after leaving the Netherlands with a minimum of possessions.Read now
Gregory Crewdson
My favourite photographer for a long time (ok, I was young). Photographs from all his ‘periods’, his favourite inspiration and a shoot I did after I stole his.Read now
Review of Pentax K 50 mm f/1.2
The Pentax K-mount 50mm f/1.2 on a Sony A7? Yes! Click through for an in-depth review and lots of photographs shot with the combo, and of the combo.Read now
Bill Brandt
What Bill Brandt is known for, at least by me, and how he became famous. Check out his quirky landscape photographs here.Read now
Beach portraits Rineke Dijkstra
I shot a couple of adolescents on the beach Rineke Dijkstra-style. They nearly froze to death. Their parents forbid me to share the photos. So here you go.Read now