Belinda Van Zanen is an Australian photographer and artist whose practice explores attention, presence, and the relationship between human perception and the natural world.

Her work is grounded in sustained observation, using photography as a way to slow down and remain with experience. Water, light and movement recur as central motifs, not as spectacle, but as sites of quiet encounter. Through extended periods of looking, she investigates how meaning emerges through duration, repetition and restraint.

Her current body of work, Ocean as Muse, examines the ocean as both subject and collaborator. Working across digital and analogue processes, images are shaped by environmental conditions - wind, tide, light and weather and accompanied by handwritten metadata that records these variables as part of the work itself.

Alongside her artistic practice, Belinda works with a select number of commercial clients each year - national park authorities, tourism organisations and values aligned outdoor and lifestyle brands. She brings full production capability to each engagement across photography, videography, written content and creative direction. Based in Noosa, Australia. Available nationally and internationally.