Mads nits

Mads Nissen (born November 17, 1979 in Hobro ) is a Danish photographer . He is one of the few photographers to have won the Press Photo of the Year award twice.

Life

Mads Nissen graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in Copenhagen . From 2004 to 2006 he worked for the Danish newspaper Politiken and then as a freelance photojournalist for magazines such as Newsweek , TIME , Der Spiegel , Stern and the Sunday Times . He documented, among other things. the food crisis in Niger , the overpopulation in the Philippines or the rainforest in the Amazon .

Nissen received numerous awards for his work, e. B. Danish Press Photo of the Year in 2007 and 2010, a World Press Photo Award 2011 or the scholarship of the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film 2011.

In 2015, Nissen's shot of a gay couple during an intimate moment in Saint Petersburg was named 2014 Press Photo of the Year by World Press Photo . The photo is part of a larger project on " Homophobia in Russia".

His shot The First Hug , which addresses the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil , was named Press Photo of the Year 2020.

Publications

• Amazonas , Gyldendal, 2013, ISBN 978-8-7021361-0-4
• A New Documentary , The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9896053-0-4 .

Web links

• Mads Nissen's website
• Mads Nissen on his Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Grant (Photographie.com)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Markers of change. In: ekantipur.com. November 2, 2011, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
2. ↑ In the Name of Victoria. (No longer available online.) In: worldpressphoto.org. August 26, 2010, archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Mads Nissen on his Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Grant. (No longer available online.) In: photographie.com. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2014 GOES TO MADS NISSEN. (No longer available online.) In: worldpressphoto.org. February 12, 2015, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Benjamin Triebe, Moscow: World Press Photo Award 2014: The Message from Jon and Alex. In: nzz.ch. February 12, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
6. ↑ World Press Photo Award: Mads Nissen took the best photo of the year. In: Spiegel Online . February 12, 2015, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
7. ↑ A corona-compliant hug - that's the World Press Photo 2021 , Der Spiegel, April 15, 2021 (accessed April 15, 2021).
8. ↑ Mads Nissen: Amazon. (No longer available online.) In: gyldendal.dk. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved February 14, 2015 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.