Hellen van Meene

"Its about viewing like a photographer is the only thing that matters, not the hardware, film or settings used" -Helen Van Meene

Hellen Van Meene is an artist who makes portraits of young people. Because of her outstanding work she is able to make a living out of her work. Living in Heilo Netherlands Hellen Van Meene work is mostly of young girls. She has been nominated for the Citibank Private Bank photography prize in 2001. All her photos use available light without flash, lamps or artificial reflection. Helen makes all her color proof prints from negative in her own dark room or she scans the negative on a canan canoscan and makes color proof prints on a Hp deskjet printer. Helen advises photgraphers to get to know about color in the dark room and experiment with photo shop.

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