Zilveren Camera
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.
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 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.
