Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen speaks about blood diamonds

Award winning photographer Kadir van Lohuizen talks about his investigative photography projects on the diamond industry and violence against women as well as his work in conflict and disaster zones

Award winning photographer Kadir van Lohuizen talks about his investigative photography projects on the diamond industry and violence against women as well as his work in conflict and disaster zones.

Born in the Netherlands, van Lohuizen became a professional photographer after being a sailor, a founder of a shelter for drug addicts and the homeless and an activist in the Dutch squatter movement.

Since taking to photography he has covered many conflicts in Africa, including Angola, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Liberia.

He worked in the former USSR, Mongolia and North Korea and covered the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. He recently covered the bloody conflict in Darfur and the war in Lebanon.

He is the winner of numerous photography awards, including ‘de Zilveren Camera’ for his story on Rwandan refugees in Zaire (1998), the Dick Scherpenzeel prize for his Sierra Leone images (2000) and his project on diamonds (2005) as well as second prize in the Contemporary Issues category of the World Press Photo award. He also won the prize for Investigative Journalism in Holland and Belgium for his story on the diamond industry.

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