NAME: Niels Helmink
BIRTH PLACE: Gaanderen, The Netherlands
BIOGRAPHY
Biography photographer Niels Helmink
1976 Born on the 24th of august in Gaanderen, The Netherlands
1998 Starts studying photography at The school for photography in Ede, The Netherlands
2000 Internship Erwin Olaf
2001 Internship Thea van Den Heuvel fotografie
2002 Gradutates at the School of photography in Ede with a project about amature soccer in the Netherlands
Publishes graduation project in a brochure for the health insurance company Zorgaanbod.
Becomes 1st assistant for Erwin Olaf
2003 Publishes work in the International Design Yearbook 2003
Makes a series of portraits for stichting promotie muziek Nijmegen
Is working fulltime fot photographer Erwin Olaf as his 1st assistant and technical Manager.
2004 Begins creating a series about authentic shopkeepers in the Netherlands.
2006 creates serie Dredgers. Dredgers is an architectual series about The sandindustry in The Nederlands.
2006 / 2007
Exhibition Dredgers and Shopkeepers at gallery Bartkunstinhuis in Nijmegen.
Solo-exhibition Dredgers and Shopkeepers at the Rijks Universiteit Nijmegen
Group-exhibition at Filmhuis LUX in Nijmegen
Works together with gallery Bart Amsterdam on book publication Shopkeepers.
Starts as freelance photographer and works for DSM and F&L publishers
2008 Solo exhibition Shopkeepers series and presentation of the book Shopkeepers at gallery Bart in Amsterdam
