Lecture Market Photo Workshop

I am doing a guest lecture at the Market Photo Workshop, a school of photography in Johannesburg, Friday the 11th. Speaking about my multimedia Afrikaner Blood and multimedia in general.

Wrap up shoot new doc

Just wrapped up shooting a new short documentary on the two first black African men participating in the Mr Gay World competition and their personal journey before and during this event.

Winner World Press Photo Multimedia Award 2012

Afrikaner Blood won the Multimedia Contest of World Press Photo! Very motivating news. Check out their website: World Press Photo

Launch of multimedia production studio

We launched a multimedia production studio. Go to Frog in a tent to read more. Ilvy Njiokiktjien and I will keep on producing multimedia under this new name.

Next stop; Namibia

Off to Namibia next week for my project Pink Africa which looks at gay rights in Africa. Joining a pride parade in Windhoek on Saturday.

Project funded by NCDO

International Award for Afrikaner Blood

First Place at Pictures of the Year International - Issue Reporting Multimedia

Click here to read more
POYI 1st Place

Afrikaner Blood published in Norway

Out on the streets in Norway; ten pages of text and photos of Afrikaner Blood in the magazine Oslo!

Afrikanerblood nominated for Canon Prize

Great news. We have been nominated for the Canon Prize, part of the Zilveren Camera-competition for Afrikanerblood. Click here to go to the nomination site

Live on Dutch radio; 100 year ANC

The South African liberation movement and political party ANC celebrates its 100th anniversary. Listen to Dutch public broadcaster NOS (Met het oog op morgen) by clicking here

And to radio 1 VPRO Buitenland here

Finally a report from a South African house where I watched the speech of president Jacob Zuma with critical South Africans here

Happy new year!

Wishing you a great new year!
I am plotting about new stories, projects and travels at this first day of the new year. I am getting excited about producing and shooting a second multimedia and continuing my project about gay rights in Africa.

In the mean time the project Afrikanerbloed will be published in more international magazines. Will let you know when and where.

All the updates from Elles!



Reconstructie (tv)
Tijdens mijn stage bij het tv-programma Andere Tijden (NPS/VPRO) werkte ik als researcher mee aan de aflevering Reconstructie, over een modern opera dat in de jaren zestig voor opschudding zorgde. Deze aflevering is online te bekijken.

Story Afrikaner Blood
The project Afrikaner Bllood was published in several international publications: Vrij Nederland (The Netherlands), The Telegraph Magazine (UK), L'Espresso (Italy), dsWeekblad (Belgium), Oslo (Norway) and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa). Continue to read the full text in Dutch and English and to download the PDF's of the magazines.




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