Chantal Heijnen
ICP (International Center of Photography)
New York, NY, United States
Chantal Heijnen (1976, The Netherlands) is a documentary and portrait photographer living in NYC. She’s also a devoted educator for the ICP Community Programs & Lantern Community Services. She passes on her passion for photography to teenagers and uses photography as a tool to work with New Yorkers in shelters who are impacted by or threatened with homelessness.
Her former career as a social worker influences her photography – it’s intimate and socially engaged.
She’s passionate about her long-term personal projects, creating portraits - through people and landscapes - of rarely seen communities.
Her work has been published in international newspapers and magazines like The New York Times, NYT LensBlog, Washington Post, Stern Magazine, Vrij Nederland among others. She has been exhibited at LagosPhoto Festival, FotoFestival Naarden, FOAM, Bronx Documentary Center, Andrew Freedman Home and Photoville.
2013 - BKVB Grant, 2012 - CENTER Portfolio Review , 2012 - BKVB Grant, 2012 - Dutch Doc Award, 2010 - Prix ANI, 2009 - Eddie Adams Workshop, 2008 - Photo Academy Award
- Arts
- Editorial
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
Bronxites
Chantal Heijnen
An intimate insiders view of a community in the South Bronx through the connections of one persons life: Gilbert. Through a mutual friend, a very unlikely but special friendship arose between Gilbert and me, a photographer from The Netherlands who loves to portray people from communities whose voices are seldom heard.
Faces of Resistance
Chantal Heijnen
On January 21, 2017 one day after the inauguration massive crowds march in direction of the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in NYC during the Women’s March to protest the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Personal Project
Bronxites
Chantal Heijnen
An intimate insiders view of a community in the South Bronx through the connections of one persons life: Gilbert. Through a mutual friend, a very unlikely but special friendship arose between Gilbert and me, a photographer from The Netherlands who loves to portray people from communities whose voices are seldom heard.
