Cindy van Rees - Sustainable Photography & Visual Storytelling

New workspace! 🌟 Well, theoretically, because if course, we’re still in a lockdown and it’s not essential for me to work from an office. But from today on I do have the possibility to work from one of the desks in this gorgeous impact hub.

From the moment I heard this wonderful sustainable impact hub / co-working space in my hometown was coming, I knew I wanted to be part of that community. Funnily enough, that happened even quicker than I could have ever imagined, as I got to create all photography for impact hub Oceans Haarlem and plant based restaurant Mama Gaia. Sometimes things just really match perfectly. 💫

Can’t wait to trade my home office for one of these desks soon. 👩‍💻 (Or later, because well, we’ll take it day by day these days.)

New online talk! Digital Fashion Week by Fashion Cloud has started, and at 13:30 the online panel conversation ‘Duurzame Keurmerken: en hoe communiceer je hierover naar je klant.’ will be aired. Together with my fellow panel guests Rachel Cannegieter from Rethink Rebels and Ashna Chhatta and moderator Bregje Lampe we discuss the jungle of sustainable certifications, the importance of transparency and the challenges and chances in communicating with customers.

Especially interesting for all sustainable fashion retailers and brands.

Where?
Wednesday January 27th, 13:30
https://fashion.cloud/en/digital-fashion-week/

What a different world... I took this photo, one of my new favourites, a few weeks ago. It was the last sustainable entrepreneur photoshoot I did, taken only a couple of days before the collective quarantine. The last cold day of the season, but not just the seasons have changed since then...

When will I be able to capture new conscious entrepeneurs? To photograph sustainable businesses? To shoot new fair fashion campaigns? To document sustainable events? I don’t have an answer, but I know that that day will come. And when it does, I’ll probably burst with love for my job. 💛📸

Take care. ♡

Photo for: Handle Real Estate

AVAILABLE NOW! 🌟 Meet my print series Closer. Five art prints that bring the wonder of the Earth into your home. And bring positivity and nature to you during these times. Now available through my webshop - link below. 💫

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Ode to Earth
Its intriguing, surreal and often unseen details

Sometimes taken for granted
Always providing wonder to be seen

Closer
A photo series that brings Earth’s magic into your home
that makes you look closer and brings you closer
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A series I’ve been working on for a while, but that had to be brought to you now. In a time where we cannot go out and admire the world around us ourselves, I couldn’t wait to offer you the opportunity to bring the wonder of Earth into your home. 💛

Prints are 50x70 cm, so they fit in most frames, printed on matt uncoated FSC certified recyclable paper. Available here: https://www.cindyvanrees.com/shop/ 🌟 Enjoy!

A BOOK FULL OF MY PHOTO’S! 📸 📗 | Meet the Amsterdam Startup Guide: over 250 pages of goodness filled with my photo’s.

Last summer I hopped all the way throughout Amsterdam for an enormous amount of photoshoots. I was photographing lots and lots of innovative startups, inspiring founders, amazing experts, the most gorgeous work spaces, investors and programs. (Some even of my own favourite sustainable companies.) A wonderful experience that resulted in this incredibly inspiring book, that I couldn’t describe better than Startup Guide did: ‘In amongst the charming brick houses and meandering canals, Amsterdam’s startup community is hard at work solving the world’s most pressing problems.’

Thankful to have been a part of this amazing project. 📷