Cristian Geelen Photography

Casa
Italia
Venice
Cristian Geelen Photography

Cristian Geelen is a photographer and a dedicated darkroom printer

Influenced by the all time greats by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Koudelka, and Alexey Titarenko, I decided to tell my own photo stories... Some of them led me to document the life in Israel and the Palestinian territories, other times it led me to capture the beautiful souls of the people in Iran...

Most of my work from those kind of journeys is fine art and documentary based, but

as a photographer, and most importantly, story teller, I am not afraid of using those skills in my commercial work...

Whether it’s spending a day with a athlete or yogi, shooting a brand, a event, or tell the wonderful story of the streets…

Everyone has a story and I want to capture it and tell it to the wold…

Let’s work together so we can inspire the world with our stories…

29/08/2026

As I drink my morning coffee in the most delightful post summer rain. My mind is a tad slower than the rest of my body. It reminds me of the recent solar eclipse. Yet the moon goes in at one end of my head and out of the other. My mind is the sun that is just taking a little breather. And while it sighs it says; I’m ready for you beautiful autumn.

22/08/2026

“I thought that you were hiding,
and you thought that I had run away”

The sun photographed during the last solar eclipse

26/07/2026

and moon and quarrels, and and rain and battles…

12/07/2026

One day it will be alright…

24/03/2026

I recently went to Venice. I needed to think. I thought about w**e as well. Even drank it. I thought about life, and death. That I really love photography. But that I am frustrated that I went to print it in a way that doesn’t exist yet. I thought about my friends. About that I love painting. And that I love the paintings of Frans Hals and John singer Sargent so much. I thought about missing a deadline. But also about my grandmother. I immediately got het some refrigerator magnets because she collects those. I thought about my other friends all over the world and I hope that they are safe. I thought about ordering another glass of w**e. Which I did.

I also thought about taking some photographs. I will put those in my diary.

06/03/2026

That my heart will be forever filled with your beautiful sunrises. It is yours. Preferably in the company of coffee, sunrises, and a lovely cat. - Morocco, 2025.

13/02/2026

Slowly but steadily creating new work. More on that when I will go on a printing spree and have had a million years of proper sleep. In the mean time I think I have a thing for roads.

16/01/2026

Fes, Morocco. 2025. Already missing it…

02/01/2026

Time has always been important to me. Ever since I was a young boy I have bee thinking about the concept of time and that there is only a finite amount of it. I guess that one of the things when you lose a parent at a young age. It always gave me enough fuel to chase my ambitions and dreams… Still does…

So how would one capture time. That something for 2026 to explore. I have started smudging and folding prints and manipulating them. To see if it somehow expresses when I feel. Let’s see where it brings me.

Pigment print on handmade folded Kozo paper.

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Venice

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