ABOUT

Anoek is a Dutch born photojournalist and documentary photographer who works on self-motivated stories and for the Agence France-Presse since 2006 in Australia and recently in The Netherlands.

With a background in Fine Arts she changed her career into photography after long travels in Asia and Australia where she started with AFP at Sydney.

Her photographs have been published in papers around the world, including the International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The South Morning China Post, The Japan Times, the Bangkok Post, LIFE, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, ABC news, L'Express, Washington Post, NRC Newspaper, and other newspapers in Asia, US, Canada and Europe.

Anoek her photographs have been exhibited at the Sydney Museum where her work is held in the collection, and in Cross Projections (2006, 2007), as part of the Kings Cross Arts festival. She was a finalist in the ACMP (Society of advertising, Commercial and Magazine Photographers) competition at 'Projections 2007'. In 2010 she takes part at the FotoFreo festival exhibition in Perth, Australia.

Anoek's philosophy is to immerse herself in the lives and cultural environment of her photo stories.

"My photographs become a play back of the film I experience in my own life which tell about people's lives who are important to document like stories who are ignored by the mass media."

Anoek is represented by Polaris images since 2009 and submitted series of work for Amnesty International, the Hapin foundation for Papuans and with Survival International.