Peter Weijmarshausen, Shapeways CEO — Emerce Magazine
Shapeways and the 3D Printing Revolution
Peter Weijmarshausen is the co-founder and CEO of Shapeways, one of the pioneering companies in consumer 3D printing. Founded in the Netherlands and later headquartered in New York, Shapeways built a marketplace that allowed designers, engineers, and independent makers to upload digital files and receive physical objects — printed in nylon, steel, ceramic, or precious metal — delivered to their door.
The platform democratized a manufacturing process that had previously required either a factory relationship or a $100,000 machine. At its peak, Shapeways was one of the most recognizable names in the 3D printing space, and Peter Weijmarshausen was one of its most visible advocates — a founder who genuinely believed that distributed manufacturing would reshape the way physical objects came into the world.
Marc Olivier Le Blanc photographed Peter in New York for Emerce Magazine, a Dutch publication covering digital business and technology with a broad European and international readership.
Shooting for Emerce Magazine in New York
The session was shot on location in New York, where Shapeways was headquartered. As a professional photographer and editorial portrait photographer working for international publications, Marc Olivier Le Blanc regularly travels for assignments — producing portraits for media in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and across Asia, in addition to his primary base of San Francisco.
Emerce is a well-regarded technology publication in the Dutch market, and the portrait was commissioned for a feature profile on Peter's vision for the future of 3D printing as a consumer technology.
Editorial Portrait Photography for International Publications
Marc Olivier Le Blanc works as an editorial photographer for publications across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His portraits of technology leaders and founders have appeared in Emerce, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, GQ China, Forbes Japan, and Forbes Portugal.
For international editorial portrait commissions requiring a San Francisco-based commercial photographer available to travel, contact Marc through the website.
