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Name
  
Tomas Houtryve

Role
  
Photographer

Series
  
Blue Sky Days


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Books
  
Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism

Awards
  
World Press Photo Award for Contemporary Issues

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Tomas van Houtryve is a Belgian documentary photographer and a member of VII Photo Agency.

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Life and career

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Van Houtryve attended a university in Nepal and after he graduated from college in 1999, he settled in Kandahar, where he met and photographed inmates and their relatives. Initially, he wanted to be a philosopher but decided to become a photographer. In 2003 he quit working for Associated Press and concentrated on the Maoist rebellion in Nepal.

He has been a member of Panos Pictures.

Tomas van Houtryve Bringing the Drone War to American Skies The New York Times

He has had his work published in Time, The New York Times, Newsweek, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Independent, GEO, Smithsonian, Stern, Foreign Policy and National Geographic and The Indianapolis Star.

In 2012 he published Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism which included his photographs of seven communist nations of the 21st century.

After seven years photographing life in the remaining communist nations, Van Houtryve's interest turned to the US military's use of surveillance drones. Thanks to a Getty Editorial Grant of $10,000, he has been able to use his own drone in the US to explore the implications of surveillance techniques used by the US both outside and within its borders.

Publications

  • Laos: Open Secret. Self-published (via Blurb), 2011.
  • Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism. Photographs of Nepal, North Korea, Cuba, Moldova, Laos, Vietnam, and China.
  • Prêles: Éditions Intervalles, 2012. ISBN 978-2-916355-65-8. Preface by Tzvetan Todorov.
  • La Lutte continue : voyage dans les communismes du XXIe siècle. Paris: Éditions Intervalles, 2012. ISBN 978-2-916355-64-1. French-language version.
  • Geschlossene Gesellschaften: eine fotografische Reise durch kommunistische Länder. Bern: Benteli, 2012. ISBN 9783716517147. German-language version.

    • Awards

  • 2006: Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik award, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, for photographs of the Maoist rebellion in Nepal.
  • 2007: Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents, for photographs of the Maoist rebellion in Nepal.
  • 2010: Third place, "Issue Reporting Picture Story - Freelance/Agency", Pictures of the Year International, for the series Moldova: The Outsiders.
  • 2010: First place, "Photographer of the Year - Freelance/Agency", Pictures of the Year International.
  • 2015: 2nd prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category, World Press Photo.

    • Solo exhibitions (selected)

  • Chute d'un dieu souverain, 18e Festival international de photojournalisme, Visa pour l'image (Perpignan, France), 2006.
  • Rébellion au Népal. Les rencontres prix Bayeux–Calvados des correspondants de guerre; at Galerie le Radar, Bayeux, 2007.
  • The fall of a god king. ArtèFoto Festival; at Villa Salvati, Ancona, 2008.
  • Népal: rituels et révolution. Galerie in my room, Paris, 2009.
  • Nepal: A 'people's war' topples the god king. Moving Walls 16. Open Society Foundations (New York, London, and Washington DC), 2010.
  • Behind the curtains: Stories from the last communist holdouts. Visa pour l'image (Perpignan, France), 2010.
  • Behind the curtains. Third Floor Gallery (Cardiff, Britain), 2011–2012.
  • Off the radar. Festival-Photoreporter, Baie de Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor, France), 2012.

    • References

    Tomas van Houtryve Wikipedia
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