Sven Becker
Luxemburg
Currently lives and works in Luxembourg. After his studies in visual communication in Brussels and Cologne, he initiated several projects around sustainable living launching exhibitions and a magazine edited under the name of IUEOA. Feeling at ease in the upcoming artistic and cultural local scene, he has been photographing local and international acts on many stages throughout Luxembourg and aboard. Author of photographs of many communication campaigns of reknown cultural institutions, festivals and artistic projects. In 2015, he collaborated with Luxembourgish visual artist Filip Markiewicz on an audio-visual work for the exhibition Paradiso Lussemburgo, selected to represent Luxembourg at Venice Biennale, Italy.
Since 2013, he works as an independent photographer, for the local press and magazines such as Lëtzebuerger Land, Paperjam, Delano, City Mag and being commissioned by Nido (Stern) or Les jours (France). 2013 marks as well the starting point of a series of independent documenting travels to countries and cities such as Istanbul, Turkey where he covered the Gezi Park occupation protests and recently the terrorist attack on New years eve 2016, Myanmar and Japan in 2015, or Teheran, Iran in 2016 where he covered cultural scene of Iranian artists community.
His aim is to capture the in-between moments that remain often unseen. Intrigued by the unfamiliar, and the functioning of other cultures, his work distinguishes itself by its subtil empathic human approach, and the telling of his subjects’ stories. His strong interest for socio-political themes and actions, social cohesion or absence of it, as well as contemporary events, such as the recent arrival of refugees in Europe, has led him to join the project “I am not a refugee”.
He currently works as a photojournalist for Lëtzebuerger Land.
- Arts
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Interview
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
- Video editing
- German
- English
- French
- Luxembourgish