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Menno Boermans (30) studied photo journalism at the Photo Academy in Amsterdam, and has been capturing Amsterdam news for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool, for many years.Nowadays this Dutchman focuses on "everything that happens in the mountains."
His work has appeared include: National Geographic Magazine, Peak Magazin (German), Montagne (Italian), Vertical (French) and OpPad (Dutch). He also works on assignment, taking photos and making documentaries about every kind of climbing, from rock, ice and alpine to expeditions and ski mountaineering.
Recent assignments include work for Mammut, the Swiss Tourism Agency, and Olympus. His images appear on websites, in magazines, books and advertisement campaigns all over the globe. Among many other locations in December 2005 Menno traveled to Cordon Granito, a remote mountain range in Chili for a rock-climbing trip.
In 2001 he took an expedition to Carstensz Piramid in Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), in 2004 he went on an international expedition to Broad Peak and in 2008 he joined a Dutch team on Manaslu in Nepal. |
Menno is not just a photographer and alpinist, he is also a firefighter and rescue worker at the Fire and Rescue department in the Dutch region of Utrecht. Currently he is being trained as a mountain rescuer at the Alpine Rescue Center of Air Zermatt in Switzerland.
Recently VERTICAL VISION went on sale, a picture book containing the work of Menno and his colleague Melvin Redeker. In this work of photography they capture the all-embracing experience that climbing can represent for humankind, from below sea level to the highest of peaks.
"Menno's photos capture the unforgettable moments, the awe-inspiring environment, the confrontation with one's own insignificance, the struggle between mountaineer and mountain, the triumph over mental and physical barriers, the friendship with climbers on whose welfare your life may depend, and the interaction with the people encountered en route".
"For Menno the guiding principle is to capture mountaineering up close. He often shoots photographs with wide-angle lenses and 'off the cuff', using a hand they have freed up with considerable effort. This is how he captures the action from such close proximity, allowing the public to look over his shoulders at eye level".
Also visit Menno's website: http://www.mennoboermans.eu/ or http://www.vertical-vision.net/
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