500 Photographers: Photographer #126: Pieter Ten Hoopen

Monday, September 27, 2010

Photographer #126: Pieter Ten Hoopen

Pieter Ten Hoopen, 1974, Netherlands, left for Sweden in 1999 to study photojournalism at the Nordens Fotoskola, since then he has been living and working in Sweden. Pieter has been all over the world for his stories, from Iraq to Kenya and from Russia to Mallorca. In 2010 Ten Hoopen won two World Press Photo Awards, one of them for his series on Hungry Horse in Montana. Next to his outstanding work as a photojournalist he has been recognized for his portraiture and his commercial work as his campaign for SSU. The following images come from his series Stockholm, Balakot - Earthquake and Kitezh - The Invisible Town.

Website: www.pietertenhoopen.com
For more work: www.agencevu.com/

1 comment:

Jonas said...: Thank you for including Pieter, he's a huge inspiration of mine.; September 28, 2010 at 12:53 PM

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