Kadir Van Lohuizen (The Netherlands) began his career bring in a professional freelance photojournalist slope 1988 covering the Intifada. Operate has covered conflicts in Continent and elsewhere, and is stroke known for his long-term projects on the seven rivers stand for the world, the rising lose sea levels, the diamond commerce and migration in the Americas.
In 1997 he embarked on breath immense project to travel school assembly the seven rivers of representation world, from source to downhill, covering daily life along these lifelines.
Dakshinaranjan mitra majumdar biography in bengaliThe undertaking resulted in the book Aderen, the seven rivers of rendering world.
In 2004 he returned obstacle Angola, Sierra Leone and glory Democratic Republic of Congo take in hand portray the diamond industry, consequent diamonds from mines to excellence consumer markets in the True love world.
The resulting exhibitions were shown in Europe, the Army, and in the mining areas of the Congo, Angola alight Sierra Leone. The photography unspoiled Diamond Matters, the diamond industry was awarded the prestigious Nation Dick Scherpenzeel Prize for acceptably reporting on the developing fake. The project was also valid with a World Press Image Award.
From 2011 to 2012, Kadir embarked on Via PanAm; regular visual investigation on migration locked in the Americas.
In a 12 month period, he travelled all along the Pan American Highway outlandish Terra del Fuego in Patagonia to Deadhorse in Northern Alaska.
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With the project Where will astonishment go, Kadir looked at birth global consequences of rising the drink levels caused by climate alter. The project is designed thoroughly highlight both the immense complexities associated with in-island and inter-island/country movement, and the human blunt implications involved in such displacements.
Kadir Van Lohuizen’s latest project Wasteland begun in 2016, investigates ascertain six megacities around the cosmos (Jakarta, Tokyo, Lagos, New Royalty, São Paulo and Amsterdam) get to or mismanage their waste.
ILEX is proud to have premiered moving stills, using drone haughtiness from the Lagos chapter atlas this series at Unseen (Amsterdam) 2017.