Education

2015-2016 Research Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science, Wassenaar, The Netherlands / Memory and Image

2009-2013 Royal academy of art, The Hague, The Netherlands /
Documentary photography

2011 Danish school of media and journalism, Aarhus, Denmark /
Photojournalism / Visual storytelling

2007-2008 Shandong University, Jinan, China / Chinese
language / Philosophy colloquium

2004-2008 Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands /
Chinese language and culture


Selected Exhibitions

2020 The Ravestijn Gallery
An Archaeology of Fear
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


2019 FOTODOK
Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments
With Parisa Aminolahi, Ana Paula Estrada, Florian Göttke, Délio Jasse, Anastasia Mityukova, Lorie Novak (US), Jan Rosseel, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Max Pinckers & Sam Weerdmeester
Utrecht, The Netherlands


2019 FoMu
Photobook Belge
Antwerp, Belgium


2018 FOAM
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with With Paul Bogaers, Sofia Borges, Antony Cairns, Juno
Calypso, Uta Eisenreich, Daniel Gordon, Noémie Goudal, Adam Jeppesen, Heikki Kaski, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Awoiska van der Molen, Anouk Kruithof, Ola Lanko, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Romain Mader, Nerhol, Momo Okabe, Olya Oleinic, Peter Puklus, Jan Rosseel, Viviane Sassen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Theo Simpson, Anne de Vries, Harley Weir en Daisuke Yokota
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2018 FoMu
Collection in Transit
With Max Pinckers & Sam Weerdmeesters, Annemie Augustijns
Antwerp, Belgium

2018 Unfair
Something untitled
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2018 Rotterdam Art Fair / The Ravestijn Gallery
Erasing Tintin
Duo exhibition with Darren Harvey-Regan
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2017-2018 Stroom Den Haag
Back-up Chapter III / Memory and Politics
The Hague, The Netherlands

2017 Photo London
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
London, United Kingdom

2017 dr Guislain Museum
Back-up Chapter II / Memory and Psyche
Gent, Belgium

2017 Museum van de Fotografie van Brussel / Recyclart
Kamel Amin Knows how to Throw a Good Party
Brussels, Belgium

2016-2017 De Brakke Grond
Back-up Chapter I / Memory and Media
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016 Unseen Photo Fair
Digital Amnesia. On the Aesthetics of Violence
Duo exhibition with Scheltens & Abbenes
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015 Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
A short History of Unfortunate events. Chapter IV 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2015 FoMu
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Antwerp, Belgium

2015 10b Gallery
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Rome, Italy

2015 RPS Gallery
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Tokyo, Japan

2015 Circulation(s) Festival for young European photography
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History / Invited Artist
Paris, France

2015 East Wing Gallery
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History / Foam Talent Exhibition
Dubai, UAE

2014 Photoville NY
The beauty of the photo book / Curated by Teun van der Heijden
Brooklyn NYC, USA

2014 Atelier Néerlandais
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History / Foam Talent Exhibition
Paris, France

2014 Bredaphoto International Photo Festival
Litho Belgica
Breda, The Netherlands

2014 Fotodok Space for Documentary Photography
A condensed Atlas of water in Israel
Utrecht, The Netherlands

2014 Unseen Photo Fair
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014 New Talent Photography Award
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014 FOAM
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2014 PhotoIreland
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
Dublin, Ireland

2014 Tropenmuseum 
Dutch Doc Award
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014 Goethe Institute
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History / Photobook masterclass exhibition
Ankara, Turkey

2014 Gallery LhGWR
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
The Hague, The Netherlands

2013 Fotogram Gallery
Photo Academy Award 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013 Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
Steenbergen stipendium 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2013 Photo Museum The Hague
Photo Academy Award 
The Hague, The Netherlands

2013 Royal Academy of Arts Graduation show
Belgian Autumn. A Confabulated History
The Hague, The Netherlands

2012 Can Bastè Forum
No Budget Cup
Barcelona, Spain

2012 VII Biennal de Fotografia Xavier Miserachs
No Budget Cup
Palafrugell / Barcelona, Spain

2012 ISSP Group Exhibition
An unfortunate event
Kuldiga, Latvia


Awards

2017 Nannen Preis Finalist 
2016 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography nominee
2015 Research fellowship Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
2015 Prix Pictet Photography Prize Nominee
2015 Winner Special mention Portfolio by the jury / Plat(t)form 2015 / Fotomuseum Winterthur
2014 Foam Talent  
2014 .tiff Young Belgian Talent
2014 ING New Talent Award Nominee
2014 Dutch Doc Award shortlist
2014 IMC Youth Award 
2014 LOOK3, LOOKbetween Nominee
2014 NY Times portfolio review
2013 Grant for Creative Top Talent The Hague 
2013 Steenbergen Stipendium Nominee
2013 Shortlisted for ‘Best of European Academies’ in DOX, Prague
2013 Photo Academy Award / first prize Volkskrant Magazine
2013 Photo Academy Award / second prize overall
2013 Royal Art Academy Award / Winner Best graduation project 
2013 Royal Art Academy Award / Winner Photography department 
2013 Schuitema prize / honorable mention
2013 PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch Nominee
2012 Shortlisted for MONO by Gomma 
2012 PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch Nominee
2011 CPOY Finalist
2011 Emerging Talent by Reportage by Getty Images 

Collections

ING-bank Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FOAM Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FOMU Collection, Antwerp, Belgium
Private collections


Artist Talks / Presentations

2019 Imagineering Violence_Everything said here is False /
symposium on Violence / de Brakke Grond / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 From Archive fever to Amnesia / KDG Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Artist talk at LUCA school of Arts / Genk, Belgium
2018 International Summer school of Photography / Kuldiga, Latvia
2018 Artist talk Lofoten International Photo Festival /
Lofoten, Norway
2017 Lecture Constructed History at De donkerste Kamer / Brugge, Belgium
2016 Seminar Confabulating History / NIAS, The Netherlands
2016 Seminar The Aesthetics of Violence. Researching a Visual
representation of War and Terror / NIAS, The Netherlands
2015 Guest Lecture Theory of Visual communication / Antwerp University, Belgium
2015 Guest Lecture Honours Course Cultural Memory of War and Peace / Leiden University, The Netherlands
2015 Plat(t)form 2015 / Fotomuseum Winterthur / Winterthur, Switzerland
2014 Lecture The process at Hard Hoofd Festival / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Lecture Constructed History at De donkere Kamer / Breda, The Netherlands
2014 Tiff. Talks at FoMu / Antwerpen, Belgium
2014 Symposium The Image as a document at Unseen / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Lecture Constructed History at PhotoIreland / Dublin, Ireland
Teaching workshops

2019 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Tokyo, Japan
2019 Visual storytelling. Dissecting methodologies workshop / LUCA school of Arts / Genk, Belgium
2018 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Oslo, Norway
2018 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Kuldiga, Latvia
2018 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Oslo, Norway
2017 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Tokyo, Japan
2016 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Luxemburg
2016 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Tokyo, Japan
2016 From idea to concept: photobook and exhibition
development / Ankara, Turkey
2016 From idea to concept: photobook and exhibition
development / Ioannina, Greece
2015 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Tokyo, Japan
2015 The photo book, going beyond the form; with Teun van der Heijden & Jan Rosseel / Rome, Italy
2014 Photobook as Object; The handmade photobook workshop / Tokyo, Japan


Workshops / Masterclasses

2014 Masterclass by Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi / Ankara, Turkey
2012 Finding your photographic voice by Jodi Bieber / Kuldiga, Latvia
2010 Storytelling by Pieter ten Hoopen / Lucca, Italy
2010 Masterclass by Stanley Greene / Brussels, Belgium