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Sanne De Wilde
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Sanne De Wilde

Sanne De Wilde (Belgium, 1987) is a visual artist working with the medium of photography, film, installation and painting creating long term work on genetics, identity and perception while experimenting with collaborative approaches in storytelling.
She graduated with a Master in the Fine Arts at KASK in Ghent (BE) with great honours in 2012. Her photo series 'The Dwarf Empire' was rewarded with the Photo Academy Award 2012 as well as the International Photography Award Emergentes DST in 2013. Her serie ‘Snow White’ was awarded 16ème Prix National Photographie Ouverte and NuWork Award for Photographic Excellence. She was awarded the Nikon Press Award in 2014 and 2016 for most promising young photographer. The British Journal of Photography selected De Wilde as one of 'the best emerging talents from around the world' in 2014 and she received the Firecracker Grant, PHmuseum Women's Grant and de Zilveren Camera award for 'The Island of the Colorblind’ in 2016. ‘Land of Ibeji’, her recent project with Bénédicte Kurzen, won a World Press Photo Award, the Rovinj Photoaward, Liangzhou Award, CAP Prize, Prix Voies OFF and was nominated for the ZEISS photography award in 2019..
Her work has been internationally published (The Guardian, New Yorker, Le Monde, CNN, Vogue) and exhibited (Rencontres d’Arles, Voies OFF, Tribeca Film Festival, Circulations, Lagos Photo, Lodz Fotofestiwal, IDFA, STAM and EYE). Since 2013, De Wilde works with the Dutch newspaper and magazine De Volkskrant, in Amsterdam the Netherlands and joined NOOR in 2017. She is represented by East Wing Gallery (Doha, Qatar).

Photo: Aurélie Geurts