Kadir van Lohuizen: Biography

Kadir van Lohuizen, a freelance photographer based in Amsterdam, Holland, began traveling and taking pictures after graduating from high school in 1982. By 1988, he was working as a professional freelance photojournalist. More recently, he has worked on documentary films for television, examining the gas industry in Siberia in 2001 and the ongoing conflict in Colombia in 2002.

He has been awarded several grants throughout his career; most recently, he received a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Van Louhizen has earned numerous honors, including the Zilveren Camera 1997, the highest Dutch award in photojournalism, and two World Press Photo awards.

His work has been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the world, and exhibited widely, including at FOAM in Amsterdam and at Visa Pour L'Iimage in Perpignan, France. His most recent book, Diamond Matters, was published by Mets and Schilt Publishers in 2005.

He is a member of Agence VU in Paris.