Sanne Derks

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www.sannederks.com

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Location: Arnhem, The Netherlands

Nationality: Dutch

Biography: Sanne Derks is a documentary photojournalist and anthropologist from Arnhem, the Netherlands. During her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (2009) on how Bolivian women deal with gender, ethnic and class inequality within Marian devotion, she became... read on

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New York Times Portfolio Reviews 2020

sanne derks

Dec 20, 2019

Super excited to be one of the 110 lucky ones to be selected for the New York Portfolio Reviews 2020, hosted by the New York Times, United Photo Industries and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York in March. It is such a huge honour and I am so much looking forward to it!

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National Geographic Society Grant Rutopia

By Sanne Derks — The National Geographhic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration has awarded me a grant to..

Feb 27, 2021

on The New York Times: Manifiesto del Agua

By Sanne Derks — An Inside Look at Cubaâs Constant Struggle for Clean Water Across the country, battling water..

Feb 17, 2021

Publication in Globe and Mail

By Sanne Derks — The Globe and Mail published my work on climate change resilience in the informal impoverished settlements..

Feb 17, 2021

Several publications on Dutch anti-curfew protests

By Sanne Derks — In January I was assigned several times to cover the Dutch anti-curfew protests. I worked with Getty Images,..

Feb 17, 2021

Winner EAW National Geographic Award

By Sanne Derks — I am thrilled to announce that I have won the EAW National Geographic Award during the Eddie Adams Workshop..

Oct 15, 2020

Jury Visa d'Or Daily News Awards

By Sanne Derks — While at Visa I had the honour to be part of an amazing jury, consisting of five women photographers, to..

Oct 15, 2020

Exhibition Museum Hilversum, The Netherlands

By Sanne Derks — My series 'Volunteers, the forgotten heroes of the pandemic' is exhibited at Museum Hilversum in the..

Oct 12, 2020

Exhibition Visa Pour l'Image

By Sanne Derks — Manifiesto del Agua, my long term project on how the right for clean drinking water is managed in communist..

Oct 11, 2020

El País publishes story on climate change resilience Guayaquil

By Sanne Derks — Fotos: Los vecinos más resistentes de Guayaquil Así trabajan los comités en los..

Dec 20, 2019

Reporters in the Field Grant by Robert Bosch Stiftung

By Sanne Derks — Super glad to announce that soon I will be working on a new project 'Emission Zero', on..

Nov 11, 2019

Cuba photos published in Internazionale

By Sanne Derks — Last week Internazionale published an article on Cuba's current crisis, illustrated by two of my..

Nov 11, 2019

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