TEUN VOETEN
b. 1966, Netherlands
Teun Voeten, Juárez, Mexico, June 15, 2009
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,” Group show
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.
