Hero of the Week: May 5, 2025: Hans de Vries
Hero of the Week
Hans de Vries
May 5, 2025
“He knows exactly how to capture you in your best and raw beauty. His photographs show his identity as an artist.”
~ Description of photographer Hans de Vries
Hero of the Week, May 5, 2025
Hans de Vries
It is with sadness in our hearts that we have chosen world-famous fashion photographer and our dear friend Hans de Vries as our Hero of the Week. Hans passed away on April 25.
When the fashion business plummeted in the Netherlands five years ago, Hans moved to Stavoren to live near long-time friend and artistic ally Robert Dupper, who runs Solari Europa. Blown away by the beauty of his fashion photography, Robert and Catherine invited him to take pictures of the Solari “people bank.” Whenever we had friends or allies visiting Stavoren, Hans would do a photo shoot. We would give them the pictures for their websites and celebrate their friendship and accomplishments on our website and in our Wrap Ups.
Hans sometimes accompanied us to conferences and interviews with people around Europe. His stunning picture of Wim Hof graced the cover of our 2021 Annual Wrap Up on Sovereignty, marking Hans’s transition from top fashion photographer to photographer of the networks bravely fighting for human health and freedom.
Hans also documented the beginnings of my collection of “Spooneys,” small, whimsical, one-of-a-kind statues created by Dutch artist Botas.
Solari’s Netherlands team will miss Hans sorely. Stay tuned for a photo spread of Hans’s work for Solari in the 1st Quarter 2025 Wrap Up, the focus of which, appropriately enough, is on “Loving Art.”
Links
Related at Solari
Dutch Farmers and Fishermen: Local Heroes in the Global War on Our Food and Property Rights (photos by Hans in “The People Who Feed Us,” pp. 98-107)
Sovereignty (cover photo of Wim Hof by Hans)
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Don’t know what to say! When I met him, I found his grace without airs amazing. None of priviledged stuff to be found at all. Grounded thru and thru. Robert, Catherine, I am truly sorry for your loss.