Hannes van der Merwe

Hannes van der Merwe is a Vancouver based commercial photographer originally from South Africa.

He started his photography career almost 20 years ago assisting local and international fashion photographers in Cape Town right at the time when the industry started switching over from film to digital photography.

Hannes moved to Canada in 2012 to be with his now-husband. He found his niche in men’s fashion photography and portraiture after many years of working within a variety of genres such as interior, travel, food, product and headshot photography.

Hannes is no stranger to the Naramata Centre and has spent many beautiful summer days here with his husband, Lonnie Delisle, and their Chocolate Lab, Emma.