Serbia PHOTO Salon Singidunum 2016
The Winnwer of FIAP Blue Badge award
Marcel van Balken EFIAP/p EPSA
Marcel van Balken has been a photographer in the Netherlands for about 35 years and is a member of FIAP and PSA. He won lots of awards in international salons and exhibitions.
His photography has been published all over the world in photo magazines & books, on calendars, on television and several websites.
As a photographer he is interested in specific themes. He believes in working thematically with an absolute preference for surrealistic and creative photography. He gives himself a kind of theme or assignment and will not stop making photographs unless he thinks he got everything out of this assignment.
Honours
• EFIAP/p (Excellence Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique PLATINUM) – 2014
• EPSA (Excellence in Photography Photographic Society of America) – 2011
• EFIAP/g (Excellence Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique GOLD) – 2009
• PPSA (Proficiency in Photography Photographic Society of America) – 2008
• RISF-3 (Reconnaissance level 3) Image sans frontier – 2008
• EFIAP/s (Excellence Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique silver) – 2006
• EFIAP/b (Excellence Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique bronze) – 2004
• Ehrenloge Deutscher Amateurfotogafen (ELDAF) – 1997
Favourite techniques
altered reality, surrealism
Favourite subjects
Citylife, people, movements, travel, lines
Awarded photographs
List of Accepted photographs on Singidunum 2016 Salon:
Street
Marcel van Balken, A1 Containerboy
Marcel van Balken A2 Cosmopolite
Marcel van Balken A3 Expire
Marcel van Balken A4 Cotton candy
Landscape
Marcel van Balken B1Five trees Toscane
Marcel van Balken B2 Slow rock
Marcel van Balken B3 Stripes Toscane
Marcel van Balken B4 Stumps
Portrait
Marcel van Balken C1 Praying
Marcel van Balken C2 Female hat
Marcel van Balken C3 Oldster2
Marcel van Balken C4 Cockscomb
Experiment
Marcel van Balken D1 Balloons
Marcel van Balken D2 Waterfall
Marcel van Balken D4 Chess
Open Color PRINT
Marcel van Balken E2 Moslima
Marcel van Balken E4 Baywatch
Open Monochrome PRINT
Marcel van Balken F2 Railway station
Marcel van Balken F4 Villa Albanaise