Who we are...

We, Michel and Caty Wijn, both professional photographers, have worked together in our firm, Foto Michel Wijn, for over 27 years. Each of us has his or her specialties, acquired in more than thirty-six years of working in the field of medical and scientific photography and illustration.

We started out as photographers in two different hospitals; from 1978 we run a private firm in medical and scientific photography and illustration in Arnhem, the Netherlands, a unique business in this country. Foto Michel Wijn has its base in Rijnstate Hospital, one of the largest non-academic hospitals in the Netherlands. There we have to our disposal a photostudio, a computersystem especially tailored to do high quality drawing work, desktop publishing and scanning; we also are well-equipped for reproduction, photomicrography and macro-photography

Amongst our customers are specialist doctors, even from different countries, pharmaceutical industries, suppliers of medical equipment, publishers…

We offer a variety of services from patient photography to desktop publishing, from anatomical drawing to photography in micro and macro, studio photography, photography for publication. Of course, computer graphics, drawings and posters are part of our service.

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As all professional medical photographers should, we are members of NVMAC, the Dutch Society for Medical Audiovisual Communication; that is an association of photographers and illustrators in the medical and scientific fields. NVMAC offers a trainingprogram consisting of supplementary courses for medical photographers, which leads towards certification as a Registered Medical Photographer to be enrolled in the Register Medisch Fotografen (RMF). Foto Michel Wijn is responsible for the NVMAC-course in clinical and dental photography. NVMAC is affiliated to EFSI, the European Federation of the Scientific Image: www.efsionline.org