Koen Wessing
Koen Wessing (born January 26, 1942 in Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands ; † February 2, 2011 there ) was a Dutch photographer .
Life
Wessing was the son of an interior designer and a sculptor. At the end of the 1950s he met the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken . In 1961 he attended the Amsterdam School of Art, later the Gerrit Rietveld Academie , where his mother was a lecturer. He then worked as an assistant at Van der Elsken and started his own business as a freelance photographer in 1963 . In 1968 he photographed the May riots in Paris . In 1969 a photo report followed about the Amsterdam Delta Works and in the same year about the occupation of the Maagdenhuis at the University of Amsterdam . His recordings of Chile immediately after the 1973 military coup became world famous. In 1975 he documented the Nieuwmarkt riot of 1975 in Amsterdam. In the following years he reported from other crisis areas of the world such as Northern Ireland , Guinea-Bissau , Nicaragua , El Salvador and Kosovo . In 2007 he reported from the People's Republic of China .
Prizes and awards
- 1989: Ablasprijs .
- 2000: Retrospective at the Amsterdams Historisch Museum .
Publications
- with Pauline Terreehorst and Ed Grazda: Chili, September 1973 . Errata Editions, New York City 2010.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wessing, Koen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 2011 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands |