Chris De Bode (NL)

WORKSHOP
After a small lecture about my approach in building a story I will give my students a small assignment.
In a few days I will comment and guide them in their work. Finding a subject, approaching it, what is it you want to share, editing your material will all be essential ingredients. It’ll be a fun, intense, personal workshop in order to become a better story teller.

BIO
Chris de Bode, currently living in Amsterdam, Holland. Born 1965, Hattem. While being a rock climber Chris started to pick up photography. After a trip to Palestine he decided to focus his work more on documentary photography. In the last fifteen years the stories he has worked on have taken him to places like Lebanon, Madagascar, Uganda, Nigeria, the Philippines, Colombia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and, of course, all around Holland. In addition to various prizes in the Netherlands he has won a World Press Photo Award with a sports picture taken during the Tour de France. He decided to continue covering cycling tours but only in countries outside the usual Western circuits focusing more on social and political issues than the sports event itself. Chris traveled to Cuba, Senegal, Eritrea, Colombia and China to cover the respective national tours.

This body of work resulted in the book “Tour du Monde” which appeared in March 2008.

The photo series “Fire without smoke” was commissioned by the Dutch Refugee Foundation.