Photo Awards
My picture of the heavily wounded Malick (17) was nominated for the 2026 edition of the Zilveren Camera, the most important photojournalism prize in The Netherlands. The photo is part of the Zilveren Camera exhibition, which will tour through The Netherlands throughout 2026. Click here to read more, on the Zilveren Camera website.
The Zilveren Camera exhibition in Venlo, The Netherlands. Photo by Andre Bakker.
Until September 6th, all the winning images of the 2019 Zilveren Camera photojournalism awards will be on display in Venlo’s Limburgs Museum. The Zilveren Camera Exhibition that boasts the best photography by Dutch photojournalists, includes my second prize Beira photograph. To read more about my winning picture or the Zilveren Camera awards, click on one of the three links below.
Read more:
Canon Zilveren Camera: a second place for my Beira photograph
Zilveren Camera in Museum Hilversum: exhibition of winning photos
Take a virtual tour through the Zilveren Camera exhibition at Museum Hilversum
The exhibition is on display in Venlo, The Netherlands. Tickets are available through the website of Limburgs Museum.
At the PEP group exhibition in the Brussels-based ‘Peinture Fraîche’ space you can see one of my photographs on display from 18 June to 11 July! If the exhibition is still on and not canceled because of the corona virus, limited prints of each exhibited photograph in the ‘Transistions’ themed exhibit are for sale for an affordable price, between 300 and 350 euros per photo.
The photograph has been selected as part of the ‘Photographic Exploration Project’ (PEP), which “aims at exploring the photographic language in all its aspects, photography being here considered as a way of communication using its own visual elements as pieces of a particular vocabulary.”
Peinture Fraîche in Brussels
‘Transition is the process of changing from one state or condition to another. The moment of the in-between is often very special. For this new exhibition, we invited artists to consider ways in which photography can explore this concept. The fields in which the notion of transition can apply are numerous: politics, society, biology, culture, environment, climate, psychology, technology, architecture, and many more. It can be considered in a global perspective or related to one’s personal story, being for instance a formal, physical or mental transformation regarding gender, status or age. This topic has been explored in many different ways by artists who responded to PEP's open call. This exhibition will show the vision of the selected photographers.’
Other photographers featured in this exhibition are Maria Makridis, Maria Kokunova, Catarina Aguiar, Lotta Lemetti, Gabrielle Hall-Lomax, Arnaud Teicher, Kevin Krautgartner, Cyril Sancereau, Valerio Figuccio, Mara Gajic, Nigel Baldacchino, Balazs Deim, Martina Elizabeth Di Carlo, Valentin Marco, Donna Garcia, Dirk Schlottmann, Danilo Garcia Di Meo, Sven Kräuter, Jussi Puikkonen and Dawid Zieliński.
The group exhibition is located at Peinture Fraîche in Brussels: Rue du Tabellion, Notarisstraat 10, 1050 Ixelles, Belgique. You can visit the space from Monday to Saturday, from 10:30 until 19:00.
My photograph was also used by PEP to promote their open call
In the 7th edition for the LUMIX Festival for Young Visual Journalism, our ‘Grit & Grass’ multimedia story is selected as one of this year’s finalists in the ‘Digital Storytelling’ category. Together with ‘ digital narrative format’ productions made by renowned photographers and journalists like Cicilie S. Andersen, Anna Fritsche, Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Etinosa Yvonne, our work can be seen during the festival in Hanover. Due to COVID19 measures, however, the festival will run mainly online.
Grit & Grass was produced on assignment by Dutch foreign news platform Bureau Buitenland. For this story about a deadly conflict between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria, Africa correspondent Saskia Houttuin and I traveled to Plateau State, where we created two interactive stories which focus on both sides of the conflict.
The first chapter of this story is about Nding, where Fidelis tells about the Fulani herdsmen that attacked his family. The second chapter is about a nearby settlement of Fulani herders, who explain why they had to move their cattle into farmers territory - one of the biggest reasons that initiated this conflict is drought caused by climate change.
This multimedia interactive story is made with the Slices storytelling tool, and includes photography, video, text and infographics. You can watch both (Dutch) chapters of the story in the video below, or click through the English two chapters through these links:
Now Museum Hilversum is closed until further notice due to the COVID19 outbreak, it will not be possible to see the best photojournalism of The Netherlands according to the jurors of the Zilveren Camera Photojournalism awards.. But luckily, they have created a handy virtual tour of the exhibition, so that you can see all winning photos (including my 2nd prize Beira shot) from your self quarantine space.
Press the ‘play icon’ in the image by Marijn Fidder above to check out a small preview. If you’d like to click through the whole exhibition, follow this link to see the digitalized Zilveren Camera exhibition at Museum Hilversum.
Want to see the best photographs of Dutch photojournalism? All winning pictures of the 2019 Zilveren Camera, including my second prize Beira photograph, will be exhibited in Museum Hilversum from 2 February to 22 March. The image will also be on display in the center of Hilversum town, as part of the same exhibit. After March 22nd, the winning photographs of the Zilveren Camera competition will travel to various exhibition locations in The Netherlands.
To read more about de Zilveren Camera and my photograph that won the second prize, click here or check out the website of De Zilveren Camera. To read more about the exhibition, check out the page of Museum Hilversum.
Silver! The photo above was awarded the second prize 🥈in the most prestigious Dutch photojournalism awards, de ‘Canon Zilveren Camera’ (‘Silver Camera’), in the ‘International News’ category. I took this photo, of the 28-year old Isabel and her children, in the Mozambican city of Beira, which was partially destroyed by the Idai Cyclone.
They waited for rescue for days, clinging on to trees and rooftops, after a powerful cyclone tore through Mozambique and triggered flash floods in what the UN has called "one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in the history of Africa”.
When rescue workers arrived in boats and helicopters, most had nothing more than the clothes on their backs, and their feet were swollen from days of waiting in water. Hundreds were taken to the Escola Secundaria Samora Machel in the city of Beira. Aid agencies were providing survivors with a bucket of drinking water and a large pot of rice, but other basics are still lacking. Some were relieved just to be alive, but said they fear for those left-behind.
Twenty-eight year old Isabel Daniel and her children were stuck on a roof for days before they were rescued. Together with hundreds of others, they survived by drinking boiled water.
The winning photograph was part of a series published by Al Jazeera English. To see more photo and video shot in Beira, of the cyclone Idai aftermath, you can click here. To see the other winning pictures in the Zilveren Camera awards, follow this link.
I’m excited to announce that one of my photo series shot in Plateau State, Nigeria, will be shown on the 3rd edition of the Polyphony International Photo Festival. The annual photography festival is organized by the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira’s Belur Math-a College. Eight of my photographs will be exhibited on the banks of the holy river Ganges, early February.
To find out more about the festival, check out their Facebook page or check out this video.
I'm very glad to hear that my photographs made it to 'the best five' in the international photography section of De Zilveren Camera! Read more about de renowned Dutch photojournalism awards and the jury’s remarks on the Zilveren Camera website. Fingers crossed.
