Quiet light,
vast places.
Photographs by Piet van Weel, made slowly across mountains, deserts, and coastlines — and the long pauses in between.
Work in chapters,
not single frames.
The trips that shape me come back as bodies of work — sequences of images from the same place, the same week, the same light. New series will appear here as the archive comes online.
Eklutna Lake, Alaska, 2025
Capturing the last vestiges of warmth as summer slowly fades away at Eklutna Lake.
Open Series →
Reflections Lake, Alaska, 2025
The long Alaskan light slowly fading across the water while still waters hold the Chugach upside down on an evening in July at Reflections Lake.
Open Series →
Columbia Gorge, Oregon, 2025
Long summer light on the basalt walls, the slow river below, mist off the falls — four days in the Columbia Gorge near the longest day of the year.
Open Series →
Oahu, Hawaii, 2024
Five winter days on Oahu — sunsets stretching long over the Pacific, the city softening into night, and a December that never quite feels like winter.
Open Series →Nineteen more chapters in the archive.
View all series →Portfolio,
building…
A working selection. The full archive is being curated; this preview will populate as photographs come online.
“You stay long enough in a place — eventually it shows you something only it can show. The picture I came for is rarely the one I leave with.”— Piet van Weel
A camera, a pair of boots, and a long list of places I’d never seen.
Photography started, for me, as a way to slow travel down. Walking longer routes. Sitting still until the light changed. Coming home with a few frames that felt honest.
The work is mostly about staying long enough to see what a place actually looks like. A fuller bio and the actual archive are on the way — check back soon.
Let’s make something.
I take on a small number of editorial and commercial projects each year. If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you.
Begin a conversation →