Photo: David Vroom
About
I'm Wardie Hellendoorn, a documentary photographer. I studied at the KABK in The Hague and work from Alkmaar.
I photograph places everyone knows and nobody really looks at. The verge along the motorway, busy with life. Office towers in the evening sun. The people on the ferry, halfway across the IJ, who for a few minutes have nowhere to be.
Not what was intended. What happens to it afterwards.
I take that documentary eye into commissions. A portrait or a campaign, it makes no difference: I look for what is there, not for what was meant to be there.
Clients
ABN AMROCBREDSMAupingDSM NiagaSanquinInstockMarketBonteHondThanskLand Art FlevolandStichting 113Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamWaag SocietyvFondsGroenLinks-PvdAKunstlinie AlmereVereniging Dutch PhotographersKoninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Exhibitions
2024 Silkeborg Kunsthal, Denmark
Photograph of a work by Marinus Boezem as part of a group exhibition
Photograph of a work by Marinus Boezem as part of a group exhibition
2017 Rotterdam Photo Festival
Presentation of ‘Commuter #1’ from the Streetwork series
Presentation of ‘Commuter #1’ from the Streetwork series
2014 Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
Exhibition of the Pont project
Exhibition of the Pont project
2014 KABK, The Hague
Exhibition of the Pont project
Exhibition of the Pont project
Publications
2026 Waag.org
“The making of: 100% Amsterdams Textiel”, photography for Waag Futurelab. →
“The making of: 100% Amsterdams Textiel”, photography for Waag Futurelab. →
2025 Amsterdam 750
“Van stadse bodem: 100% Amsterdams textiel”, the project (in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum) celebrating 750 years of Amsterdam. →
“Van stadse bodem: 100% Amsterdams textiel”, the project (in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum) celebrating 750 years of Amsterdam. →
2025 Makerting
“Uitgelicht: Wardie Hellendoorn”, interview about the collaboration with Makerting. →
“Uitgelicht: Wardie Hellendoorn”, interview about the collaboration with Makerting. →
2024 Silkeborg Kunsthal, Denmark
International publication accompanying the exhibition on Marinus Boezem
International publication accompanying the exhibition on Marinus Boezem
2023 – 2024 Provincial Poster Campaign Flevoland
Use of images for Land Art Flevoland in public space
Use of images for Land Art Flevoland in public space
2023 Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art
Publication of photographs of Green Cathedral, Pier + Horizon and Sea Level in the article “Precarious Ground: An Experiential Approach to Land Art in Flevoland”
Publication of photographs of Green Cathedral, Pier + Horizon and Sea Level in the article “Precarious Ground: An Experiential Approach to Land Art in Flevoland”
2020 De Tuin in vier seizoenen
Feature on the Muurbloempjes series
Feature on the Muurbloempjes series
Nominations & Shortlists
2015 Athens Photo Festival
Shortlist nomination for the Digital Archive project (theme: Reframe Memory)
Shortlist nomination for the Digital Archive project (theme: Reframe Memory)
Education
2022 Masterclass Bas Losekoot
Studio X Street – Cinematic Lighting
Studio X Street – Cinematic Lighting
2012 Internship at Raimond Wouda
Assisting and research on documentary projects
Assisting and research on documentary projects
2011 ResearchLab
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
2009 – 2014 Photography (Bachelor of Arts)
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague
2008 – 2009 Engineering, Design & Innovation
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Blog
Sometimes I write about what I see. To the blog →
Contact
Tell me what you're after. First we look. Only then do we capture.