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Alex Kemman (1988, the Netherlands) is a cultural anthropologist and criminologist interested in showing invisible and underlying processes of power. His long term photography projects relate to development issues, waterpolitics, human rights and ecology. In this he takes a slow journalism approach and uses both research methods and theoretical insights of his academic background.
Awards / Exhibitions
2021 Group exhibition Emergentes Encontros de Imagem – The
Last Free River of Mesopotamia. Braga, Portugal
2020 Nominated for Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography Photo:Israel – The Last
Free River of Mesopotamia. Exhibited at Photo: Israel. Tel Aviv
2020 Second place Emergentes Encontros de Imagem fotofestival – The
Last Free River of Mesopotamia.
2020 Third place Verzasca fotofestival – The Last Free River of Mesoptamia
2020 Artcollection Dutch Ministery of Foreign affairs – The Last Free River of
Mesopotamia
2019 Group exhibition in Museum Hilversum ‘Netherlands Narcostate’
2019 Nominated for International Photography Grant 2019, Documentary
2018 Projection of Whispers of War at Night of Photography Recontres
d’Arles photofestival, France
2018 De Donkerste Kamer, pitching and presenting the Last Free River
of Mesopotamia. Brugge, Belgium
2017 Presentation of Whispers of War bij ‘Donkere Kamer #30’
Pakhuis de Zwijger.
2017 Projection at Gazebook photofestival, Sicily
2017 Young Talent Award Narrative Journalism, Amsterdam
2017 Special mention for Beca Blank Paper / Dinamo Visual grant
Photography academiy Madrid
2017 Whispers of War photobook nomination MACK first book award
2017 Whispers of War photobook Luma Recontres d’Arles dummy award
2017 Whispers of War photobook Fiebre dummy award
2017 Whispers of War photobook Kassel dummy award
2017 Numerous exhibitions of dummy Whispers of War at European photo festivals.
Grants
2020 Recipient MIAP Grant for ‘Green Veins of Europe – Ecocorridors & the
European Green Deal’
2020 Postcode Loterij fonds voor journalisten for ‘Groene Aderen –
Ecocorridors & de Europese Green Deal’
2020 Recipient of de Cooperatie Matchingfonds for ‘Groene Aderen –
Ecocorridors & de Europese Green Deal’
2020 Recipient Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten for ‘Groene
Aderen – Ecocorridors & de Europese Green Deal’
2019 Recipient Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten for
‘Nederland Narcostaat’
2018 Recipient of documentary photography foundation Fonds
Anna Cornelis grant for ‘The Last Free River of Mesopotamia’ project
2016 Research Journalism Fellow of Fonds 1877
Masterclasses / Courses
2020 Selected participant Future of Nature Collective.
Message in a Photo (MIAP)
2019 ‘Impact through Extinction’ Transformations workshop, Rebecca Simons en Eefje Ludwig
2019 Selected participant Louis Zaal Meesterklas (collaboration with Zilveren Camera)
2018 Selected participant of Photobook:Reset C/O Berlin.
2018 Workshop Your Photography Project: The portfolio review and beyond by Marc Prüst. Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2017 Selected for NOOR-Nikon Academy Visual Storytelling by Yuri Kozyrev, Pep Bonet and Sebastián Liste. Amsterdam
2016 Masterclass Photobook Design by Teun van der Heijden en Sandra van der Doelen. Lensculture, Amsterdam
2014 Masterclass Digital Storytelling by Henrik Kastenkov. Amsterdam
2012 Masterclass Documentary Photography by Chris de Bode. Utrecht
2012 Masterclass create a succesful photobook by Jeroen Toirkens and Lars Boering . Utrecht.
2011 Advanced Photography by Kael Alford, Newsha Tavakolian, Patrick Witty, Anastasia Taylor-Lind. Suleymaniyah, Iraq.
2011 Photographic storytelling course by Kamaran Najm, Metrography. Suleymaniyah, Iraq.