At ACHTUNG!, we believe that ideas can become great when teams of people with the right skills and attitude are brought together. That is why we have been working with Merten since the early years of our company’s existence. Merten has the talent of combining dedication in his developing skills, with the habit of cooperating with a wide variety of personalities, thereby finding new solutions with the team for often complex ideas. By the way, he is also fun when not working!

A highly creative and experienced Flash Designer with the ability to originate innovative designs within commercial considerations. Merten possesses the organisational and personal skills to deliver quality and usable design solutions to problems due to thorough understanding of the full production process. He is an excellent team player who can inspire those around him and add new perspective to any project that he is involved in.

Merten, bedankt voor de al 17 jaar lange samenwerking op vele uiteenlopende klussen. Van het produceren van grote web projecten en online campagnes tot het ontwikkelen van kleinere websites en fotografie. Altijd een goede, deskundige, creatieve, kritische en vooral plezierige partner aan Merten gehad.

Merten Snijders is a highly motivated professional with excellent skills in creating innovative interactive productions. He is not limited to proven ideas and very capable of bringing his original ideas to life. Working with Merten on the Spyker Formula 1 magazine was a pleasant ride in a rollercoaster resulting in a quality product all of us are proud of.

Merten Snijders definitely deserves an honourable mention because his site was the only one in this year`s Reboot that showed me something original. His navigation is innovative, clever and perfectly executed and the attention to detail with the thumbnails being discarded from the screen when navigating to a new section gives his site that added plus.

Merten is one of the best interactive scripters I’ve worked with. Very good eye for detail and won’t stop until the job is done.

Having spent numerous hours on various projects working side by side with Merten at Perfect Fools has truly been an awesome experience. Besides very strong technical knowledge used with programming Merten possesses a great deal of aesthetic know-how regarding color, composition and form. A fantastic combination which compliments his portfolio and shines through in every bit of his wide range of work. Merten has proven himself of being a very talented artist during our time of working together, last but not least he also is a very good friend capable of adapting to new people, cultures and situations.

I’ve learned a lot about animation, coding and most of all teamwork from Merten. He’s the hardest working man in show business, no-one contributes the hours and dedication to making the good stuff like he does. Plus he has a really jaunty hat that will liven up any workplace!

My time with Merten at Perfect Fools was a new experience in quality pushing and long discussion about ideas, concept and life itself. Merten`s personalty pushed me to think one step further than I was used to. He's a reliable and a secure professional you want to have aboard when you enter projects. He makes you sleep tighter during the night. I have had the great opportunity to work with this wonderful person, to bad it was short and I hope I will have the chance again.

Inmiddels werken wij al vele jaren samen aan ons platform van The Athlete Club! Merten is altijd bereikbaar en reageert enorm snel. Daarbij denkt hij altijd mee om onze ideëen tot iets concreets te maken. Wij zijn dan ook enorm blij met alles wat Merten de afgelopen jaren voor ons gedaan heeft. Een aanrader!

Dear Merten, I fell in love with a beautiful picture of yours of Stellenbosch, a sunset. Could I purchase this picture from you for home use, i.e. printing a large poster? After delivery to Switzerland: Now it’s done – it is very nice, i like! Thanks again for everything!!!! 

Merten is een heel relaxt persoon en mengde zich tijdens de dag op natuurlijke wijze tussen onze gasten, maar hij is ook heel perfectionistisch en dit heeft prachtige foto's opgeleverd. Voordat we terug waren van onze huwelijksreis hadden we de foto's al in de brievenbus! We wilden graag de natuurlijke momenten vastgelegd hebben en deze hebben we in overvloed gekregen.

Merten is a special guy. He uses both hemispheres and therefore he is highly versatile. Merten designs and builds technically complex systems. He is a gifted photographer with a keen eye for atmosphere, composition and momentum. On top of that, he can draw like a champ. Work with this man, he will always stay in your mind.

Merten heeft onze trouwfoto’s met veel enthousiasme gemaakt. We zijn zeer tevreden over de foto’s die ook heel snel geleverd waren. We raden Merten zeker aan.

Als hij de foto’s niet had als bewijs, zou ik niet geloven dat hij ook daadwerkelijk op de bruiloft is geweest. Hij was de hele dag praktisch onzichtbaar en dat leverde hele mooie, oprechte foto’s op. Met zijn talent om compleet op te gaan in het publiek en op precies de juiste plek te zijn op de juiste tijd, heeft hij onze dag vast gelegd zoals wij hem herinneren. 

Onze dag was geweldig, maar het werk, de voorbereiding daarop en inzet van Merten op de dag zelf en daarna zorgde voor de perfecte punt op de i.

Merten weet op heel goede wijze "je mooiste dag van je leven" vast te leggen. Vooral als je niet op zoek bent naar van die corny pose foto's. Hij weet naast mooie portretfoto's ook echt goed de emotie en vreugde van die dag vast te stellen. Ben ook erg fan van zijn bewerkingen. Een plaatje om op te hangen ;)

A versatile and experienced artist who manages everything from the true documentary to the really polished look. I have hired him for both professional and private assignments.

Wij willen je bedanken voor het vastleggen van onze mooiste dag. Je voelde de sfeer perfect aan. Was onzichtbaar, maar hebt alle momenten spot on vastgelegd. De sfeer op de foto's gaf ons gevoel bij de dag perfect aan.

Merten heeft een ontzettend goed oog voor speciale momenten. Hij heeft naast de te verwachten shots nog heel veel mooie foto's gemaakt die precies het zelfde gevoel opwekken als op de dag zelf. Creatief met oog voor de speciale momenten, het heeft ons het mooiste foto album opgeleverd!

I've worked with Merten for a few years now for our annual design and technology conference in Amsterdam. Working with him has always been a pleasure - he's professional, friendly, an amazing photographer and easy-going - but what sets him apart from all the other photographers we work with are small things. For example, meta-tagging all the photos, sorting them by time, day and function, adding image titles with people's names (when he has them) are all little things that saves us, conference organizers, a tremendous amount of time. Plus he just 'gets it.' Conference photography isn't just about taking shot of people attending the conference or the presenters on stage. It's about capturing the general mood and feel of the show, what it was like to be there. His candid shots around the venue, people, space around the show all adds to capture the true essence of the experience of being there. Our company organizes 12-15 conferences annually around the world, and we usually use Merten's photos for many of our marketing campaigns and promos. I wish we had the budget to fly Merten out to all of our shows. I cannot recommend him enough!

Waaaaaaaauw wat een foto’s…. Wat een waanzinnig mooi tijdsbeeld. ❤️ Echt geweldig. Wij zitten ons te vergapen aan alle mooie beelden. 👌🏼 Wat on-wijs tof Merten…! Superblij met je werk!!!