Merette
Kuijt
🇳🇱 Netherlands
With us
9 months
My photos are sensory. You have to feel them, smell them, taste them. The slight roughness of a lace dress, the smell of a warm summer day. When photographing, my attention is focused on the seemingly unimportant detail. My style lies between documentary and lifestyle. In my work I direct as little as possible and only intervene to remove disturbing elements that do not contribute to the story.
I love photographing people. I believe that you can capture the most beautiful moments if you let a person do what they want and don't direct too much. I capture those moments in which you are yourself, in which there is real emotion. A beautiful photo cannot be forced, it comes naturally when someone feels comfortable. As also a family photographer I love weddings with kids.
I graduated from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam in 2021 and have 9+ years experience in the wedding industry.
Winning photos
Not pictured; a very committed bridesmaid that kept crouch running around them with a bubble machine. Hilarious, but it made for such a fun moment.
116th Collection
This couple had to face so many challenges surrounding their wedding day, having to move the date and adjust the days celebrations. The couple hope for a magical white winter wedding, but it hardly snows in The Netherlands so the chances seemed slim, but sure enough, after the ceremony we were greeted by snowflakes falling from the sky as we walked back through the streets of the city of Utrecht.
115th Collection
I loved this couples choice for their wedding ride and the fact that we were allowed to climb on it. Though the climbing itself proved quite the challenge when one is in heels and in a delicate dress.
115th Collection
Getting ready during a winter wedding in The Netherlands.
113th Collection
The shoot is a great moment to get away from all the hectic crowds a bit and get silly together.
111th Collection
When the ballroom is not being used for dancing, but that dancefloor beckons none the less.
110th Collection
I love a good dip during the opening dance and these two really went all-in on it!
109th Collection
Lots of giggles during a sizzling hot day in a yurt on camping't Buitenland in The Netherlands.
108th Collection
A tender moment at The Watermölle in Haaksbergen, The Netherlands.
108th Collection
