Résumé
Education
1998
Masters Cultural Anthropology, minor Philosophy, Leiden University, Netherlands.
1989
History of Modern Art, School of Visual Arts, New York.
Professional Experience
1989-present
Free-lance photographer and writer, covering the conflicts in Bosnia, Haiti, Chechnya, Colombia, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Angola. Working for publications such Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, NY Times Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Granta, Details, Village Voice, Vrij Nederland, NRC, De Standaard, Frankfurter Allgemeine, etc and for organisations such as International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Save the Children. Radio reports/dispatches for Belgian and Dutch Networks.
1999
Initiator of campaign to raise funds for a high school in Sierra Leone.
1994/1995
Research/partipant observation in homeless community, living in the tunnels under Manhattan.
1994
Coordinator in a Dutch/Belgian campaign to support the independent media in Sarajevo.
headline Publications
2002
How de Body. One Man's Terrifying Journey Through an African Civil War, St. Martins Press, New York.
1991
How de Body. Hoop en Horror in Sierra Leone, Meulenhoff Publishers, Amsterdam.
1991
A Ticket To, Veenman Publishers/Center for Contemporary Arts, Ede/Leiden, Netherlands.
2001
Tunnelmensen (Tunnelpeople), Atlas Publishers, Amsterdam.
Selected Exhibitions
2002
Museum Ethnoggraphy, Leiden, “Afghanistan 2001 and Sudan 1997”
2002
Halfking Gallery New York, “Afghanistan 2001”
2001
Firepatrol Nr. 5, Harlem, New York “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” Groupshow
2001
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. “Afghanistan: End or Renewal.”
2001
Columbia University, School for International and Public Affairs, NY “Human Crises in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda.”
2001
Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute, New York. “Sierra Leone. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
1999
Fnac Gallery, Brussels. “Afghanistan: End or renewal?” Center for Contemporary Art, Leiden. “A Ticket To.”
1998
Dr. Guislain Museum for Psychiatry, Gent, Belgium. “Tunnel people. Homeless in New York.”
1996/1997
Emerging Collector Gallery, New York. “Tunnel people,” “The Forgotten Wars.”
1994
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, “Former Yugoslavia.” Faculty Social Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden. “Three times Latin America: Images from Ecuador, Haiti and Nicaragua.”
Awards
2001
Sais-Novartis Award, for “The Terror of Sierra Leone.” Laureate Natali Award for Journalism and Human Rights.
1995, 1998, 1999
Zilveren Camera, Dutch Photo Journalistic Competition. Category Foreign News. (Sarajevo, Sudan, Sierra Leone)
1991
Nomination Prof. Speckmann prijs, best Cultural Anthropologic Fieldwork, Leiden University, Netherlands.