Ben Krewinkel

Background

About Ben Krewinkel

Ben Krewinkel (Maastricht, 1975) studied history (specialization modern African history) in Amsterdam and Pretoria. He wrote a thesis on the role women played in the liberation struggle of Mozambique. After studying history, he studied documentary photography at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam where he graduated cum laude with a series on a series about how people were trained as nurses to combat HIV in Venda, South Africa. He published two photobooks titled A Possible Life.(2012) and Looking for M.(2014) and was commissioned to design some exhibitions and photobooks. Next to practicing photography Ben Krewinkel writes on photography. He holds a M.A. Photographic Studies at the University of Leiden for which he wrote a thesis on the photographic depiction of the ‘Poor Whites’ in South Africa in the 20th Century. Since then Ben writes on photography and currently, he is working on a long-term project named Africa in the Photobook, about the changing visual representation of Africa as expressed through the medium of the photobook. This project started with the open platform with the same name and is about to be published as a book in collaboration with French-based publisher Delpire. Ben Krewinkel is a judge for the Eiger Foundation African Photobook of the Year Award, a nominator for the CAP Prize and a member of the commission for Documentary Photography at the Satdsarchief Amsterdam.