Teun Voeten
Antwerp, Belgium
Teun Voeten, Speaker
Teun Voeten studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy in the Netherlands. He is photojournalist and author who has been covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Colombia, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Honduras, DR Congo, North Korea, Mexico, Libya and Syria. He published in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The New Yorker and National Geographic. Voeten also works for the International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the UNHCR.
In 1996, he published 'Tunnel People', an anthropological-journalistic account of living 5 months with an underground homeless community in New York. After a trip to the West African country of Sierra Leone where Voeten was hunted down by child soldiers intent on killing him, he published ’How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone’ in 2000
Voeten also organizes photography exhibitions, such as "War Photography 10 years after 9/11" for GEMAK, in The Hague Netherlands. Between 2009 and 2012, Voeten covered the conflict in Mexico, resulting in his photo book ‘Narco Estado. Drug Violence in Mexico.’ Currently, he is working on a PhD dissertation at Leiden University on extreme violence in the drug war. Voeten lectures often at cultural and educational institutions, and has won numerous awards for his work. Together with video artist and film maker Maaike Engels, he just made ‘Calais: Welcome to the Jungle’, a critical documentary on the refugee crisis in Europe.At the moment, the two are working on a film on rituals in the Mexican Drug violence.
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