STUDIO MACULA
Fine-art photography
by Hermen van de Waal
Contemporary fine art portraits
by Studio Macula
Step into the light
Museum Rembrandthuis has invited Studio Macula to create a series of intimate portraits inside the very house where Rembrandt lived, worked and created some of his greatest masterpieces.
To celebrate the museum’s 115th anniversary, twelve visitors will be selected by Museum Rembrandthuis for a free Rembrandt-inspired portrait session.
This is your chance to step into Rembrandt’s light. Your portrait will be created in 17th-century style, with historical costume, painterly light and the quiet atmosphere of the old masters.
A rare invitation. One day, twelve portraits only: Apply Now
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About the artist
Hermen van de Waal is an Amsterdam-based photographer and visual storyteller.
He was sixteen when he arrived in the city with an old Zenit camera and a hunger for the street. What began there never really left: a fascination for people, their stories, their wounds, their strength — and the quiet dignity that often goes unseen.
For Hermen, the camera is only a tool.
A way to look beyond the label, beyond the mask, beyond the first impression.
Studio Macula is rooted at De Ceuvel in Amsterdam-Noord, a former shipyard reborn as a living experiment in creativity, ecology and community. Hermen has been part of this place from the beginning — a rough, poetic corner of the city where boats rest on land, ideas grow wild, and people come to create, question and reconnect.
His portraits carry something of that spirit: intimate, human, unpolished in the right places, and shaped by the quiet drama of painterly light.
From his studio, and on location, he creates portraits that do not simply show what someone looks like.
They reveal something of who they are.
