About

Chris is an international award winning documentary and portrait photographer / filmdirector. He became interested in photography during his previous career as a professional climbing instructor. Following a trip to Palestine he decided to focus his work on humanitarian issues. He travelled to more than 90 countries collecting stories.

Chris always tries to find different angles to visualize a story. Examples of this approach are his story “One Meal a Day” and most recently “Marie’s Table”. He received recognition from Stephen Mayes calling the “Exodus from Libya” collage in an Aperture publication "...remarkably innovative..."

He just released his latest book “DREAM” in which he visualized the dreams of 58 children in 13 countries. It took him 8 years to finish this body of work. The 320 page book is a co-production with Save the Children NL.

Chris is commissioned by several NGO's like Save the Children, Aids Fonds, British Red Cross, Concern Worldwide, MSF, Greenpeace, IRC, CARE, St. Vluchteling and Cordaid. Also several UN branches like UNFPA, UNHCR and WHO work with him. He also has broad experience in mentoring workshops in several countries educating photographers on all levels focusing on story telling in pictures. His work appears around the globe in all leading magazines and papers like the Guardian, National Geographic, Vanity Fair Italy, Sette, GEO, Newsweek, Time, de Volkskrant etc etc.

Chris is represented by Panos Pictures UK and LAIF Germany.

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CONTACT

Chris de Bode
cdebode@gmail.com
tel +316 14 34 31 74
skype: chrisdebode
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Panos Pictures
Unit K, Reliance Wharf
Hertford Road
London N1 5EW
tel +44 (0) 20 3322 8382

AWARDS

2000-2021: several prizes in Dutch “Zilveren Camera Awards”
2001: 3rd prize World Press Photo / sports singles
2002: 1st prize French Prix l’Equipe / IOC sports series

2005: British AOP Award bronze medal

2008: Nominated for Hasselblad Masters Award

2008: Nominated for Sony World Photography Awards

2014: Honorable mention for Unicef Award

2014: Prize winner The Other Hundred

2016: 2nd prize Lens Culture Portrait Award

2016: Alfred Fried Photo Award

2017: 1st prize Lens Culture Portrait Award

2019: Nominated for Wellcome Photo Prize

2021: 1st prize Zilveren Camera category International Documentary Series

BOOKS

DREAM, The power of Children Tour du Monde: Colombia, Cuba, Senegal, Eritrea, Qatar, China
Africa United: The Road to Twenty Ten
Bijzondere Werknemers: Verhalen uit de sociale werkvoorziening
Onzeker Bestaan: Leven aan de rafelrand van de arbeidsmarkt

publications

Foam Magazine, Aperture magazine, Vrij Nederland, HP/De Tijd, Marie Claire, Nieuwe Revu, P+, Trouw, de Volkskrant, Het Parool, NRC, Soigneur, Rapha - Mondial, Focus, Uitkrant Amsterdam, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, GEOlino, Greenpeace Magazine, Focus (D), Liberation, VSD, Science et Vie, La Vie, New Scientist, Sunday Times Magazine, Guardian, Foto8, De Standaard magazine, Knack, Das Magazin, Grande Reportagem, GEO Korea, National Geographic, Time Magazine, the Economist, Mother Jones Magazine, Business Week, Sette, Espresso, Internazionale, Gazzetta dello Sport, Sportweek (It), etc.