Discover Top Editorial Photographers / Photojournalists in Amsterdam, Netherlands

I'm a French-Italian filmmker, based in Amsterdam and traveling anywhere for work. I've studied social geography in France and Italy before getting fully involved into visual imagery, studying fine arts and film in Amsterdam (NL) and New York (US) I've now been working for more than 20 years as professional DOP and editor, with clients such as National Geographic, CNN, PBS, Euronews, Dutch TV channels and many production companies, such as Off the Fence, who's produced My Octopus teacher, wining the Oscar for the best documentary in 2021. Making film is a real passion for me and I'm fully devoted to any project I'm working on. I shoot with a Sony FX6 and cine prime lenses (Sirui Jupiter and Venus anamorphic series) along the Sony G master enses, such as the Sony 24-105mm f/4, 16-35mm f/4 and the great Sigma 100-400mm DG Art. Next the latest Ronin RS3 gimbal for smooth moving shots, I also have a EU drone license and fly the Mavic 2 Pro. I edit in my own suite in Amsterdam and I'm available to shoot anywhere. Don't hesitate to get in touch!

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• Production Assistant
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I'm a freelance video journalist, documentary director and cinematographer. I have made short docs/reports for AJ+, HBO, Fusion, The Huffington Post, and various dutch outlets. I have also made commercial videos for Mercedes-Benz and Vodafone. And for big theatre productions in the Netherlands as well. Born and raised in Amsterdam, lived, studied and worked on various continents. I speak English, Spanish and Dutch fluently and basic German and French.

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Issa Shaker is an independent filmmaker with a passion for breathing life into untold stories. Over the course of his career, he has become widely recognized for his ability in generating viral content, 250 million views and counting. As well as his coaching and consulting skills for up-and-coming journalists and online personalities. Some of the organizations Issa has served with his media productions include the BBC, Al Jazeera, AJ+, Russia Today, RNW Media, University of Vienna and University of Wolverhampton. Currently, Issa owns Shaker productions and is working on different documentary and video projects in Dutch, English and Arabic. No matter the topic or scope of the project at hand, Issa is not afraid to get his hands dirty. Few things excite him more than the opportunity to explore themes of social responsibility, government and humanity. Issa strongly believes that stories are the best way to deliver the message. Together with his technical expertise and storytelling techniques, he offers the complete package. Issa holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Indianapolis. When he’s not on set, he enjoys photography, traveling, cooking, and volunteering.

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• Video Editor - News
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• TV News Producer
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Jialu is a Chinese media professional based in the Netherlands. At the age of 21 her documentary ‘Alive’ won the Best Documentary Awards in 7th Beijing International Collegiate Video & Film Festival and was screened in 29th VGIK in Russia and 23rd FIPA in France in 2009. From 2010 until 2014, she worked as the production manager for CCTV6 China Movie Channel, in charge of ‘World Film Report’ a weekly program & daily news production, featuring the diversity of the international cinema through on-site shooting and live coverage. Jialu filmed over 70 episodes of TV programs in 40 different countries, including the live report from the Oscar's red carpet, Cannes, Venice and Berlinale film festivals. Since 2014, she worked as a freelancer for multiple media and film companies including Caixin, Phoenix TV, Cinephilia, Media Aisa Film, Merken Bezielen, Weda and Rwanda film festival. She graduated from University of Amsterdam with a MA in political communication.

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Douglas Hook Douglas is an English visual journalist and photo editor based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2022 he worked as the staff visual journalist at The Hartford Courant, in Hartford, Conn. covering state politics, human interest stories and working daily with reporters to strategize which types of photos would work for the tone and subject of the article. Prior to working for the Hartford Courant, Douglas worked as a staff writer in Massachusetts for a state-wide news organization focused on investigative journalism, state and federal politics, as well as civil and societal issues like gun violence. His feature stories have made him an award-winning writer and photographer at the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA). He has reported on the war in Syria, a popular uprising in Venezuela, social issues in China, the struggles of the coffee industry in Puerto Rico, child sex trafficking in the Dominican Republic and multiple stories in the United States. Some of the stories produced in the U.S. have received recognition, most recently with two first-place awards with the New England Better Newspaper Competition in 2020 for his Social Issue Feature Story and Best Solutions Journalism Project. The Boston Press Photographer Association awarded Douglas an honourable mention in 2020. He was also a finalist in the Religion Newswriters Association Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence for his story on Eid al-Adha the same year. The Association of Photographers Open Award in the United Kingdom exhibited his work on the demise of greyhound racing in the UK in 2010. Douglas graduated in 2013, from the University of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom, with honours in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism.

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• Audio Storyteller
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• Fixer
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• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Portrait Photographer

In 1988 Gilles Frenken graduated at the National Film Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as a cameraman (D.o.P.), documentary film director and film editor. In the past 30 years he made, as a director with his camera on his shoulder or tripod, about 150 tv documentaries and films. Some of these films were broadcasted in more than 50 countries. As a cameraman Gilles Frenken worked for various film directors, and made more than 100 documentary films in more than 100 different countries. Some of these films won first prizes on various film festivals. As a director and D.o.P., he also made a movie, 'Little Treasures of Lombok'. This film about streetchildren in Indonesia, filmed without a budget, has been seen by more than 4.7 million people on YouTube. In the last 5 years he made more than 15 documentary films about art and artists. Gilles Frenken is both based in Amsterdam and Oosterbeek (near Arnhem).

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Jan-Joseph Stok is a photojournalist with a Master in Photojournalism and Documentary photography obtained at the London College of Communication. With more than 10 years experience working on the African continent across 26 English and French speaking African countries. He has worked extensively in Congo since 2005 and covered a wide range of topics for Dutch and international press and Ngo's. For four years he worked as Africa/conflict photographer for the Dutch Newspaper Trouw. Nowadays he often works for International media and has been published in European and International newspapers and magazines around the world. He has a great experience in Human rights and environmental issues, also investigating stories on issues like minerals, Oil exploration,deforestation... He is the co-author of two journalistic books called ‘Blood Mobiles’ and Welcome in Darfur this is our lives. He has been awarded several times, he was awarded best young photojournalist of the year in the Netherlands in 2006 (Zilveren Camera).

• Fixer
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• Translator
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Md Imtiaj Nasir is a Media Producer and Visual Journalist based in Bangladesh. He is well known for his multitasking and problem solving capacities. He explored and experimented with camera and mixed media for the last 8 years. Imtiaj strives to capture the moment transcending time and place. His works continues to better understand the individual’s meaning of life on earth and thereafter and reaching with the consequences to expand his visual literacy both literal and abstract. In the recent years he produced several video and still content for Startups, Business and organizations. He worked intensively for local startup scene in Bangladesh. He does have a hand on experience on digital con- tent production and featured storytelling. Currently, he is working as a freelance media producer.

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• Video Editor - News
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Hello, I'm Andrew and I'm an adventure and documentary filmmaker. With seven years of experience filming globally, I have worked with some of the biggest names in media, including the Associated Press, UN, UNEP, ABB, Nike, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS Frontline, and more. My expertise extends to a range of camera systems, including Arri, Canon, Red, and Sony, and I am familiar with lenses from Canon L to Cooke primes. Whether you're filming in a studio or in the middle of a remote desert, I have the skills and experience to handle any location production. Based in Amsterdam, I am ready to bring his expertise to your next project.

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Brindusa is an award winning filmmaker and multimedia journalist, co-founder of Springroll Media. Two of her videos went viral in India and Russia reaching over 1,5million views in 1 week. She has worked with Der Spiegel, The Ferret, Zinc, Economy UK, Pear Video, CCTV, TV Brasil, arte. Her short film have been screened at festivals in the UK, Germany, Romania, USA, Portugal, Spain, Serbia, Greece, France, India, Argentina and Macedonia. Her web-documentary 'Goodnight Stories' has been nominated for the most prestigious journalism award in Germany - ReporterPreis in 2017.

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Lou Muuse is a online content creator, video reporter and photo journalist, from the Netherlands. Her subjects of interest respond on urgent debates in society. With a journalistic approach Lou visualise her anthropological observations, with this she tries to create new perspectives, to pull the viewer beyond their prejudice. Her visual tools are still and moving images. She also works with interactive storytelling and virtual reality.

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Creative, high-energy photographer who specializes fashion, event, portrait, street, and commercial photography with 7+ years of experience. Committed to producing premium-quality photos and delivering promised results and remaining true to a unique artistic vision.

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Photographer and visual artist from The Netherlands. Specialized in portraits, reportage and documentary photography

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Stuart Acker Holt is a British born director, editor and photographer and the founder of CRUMB.FILM based in Amsterdam. After studying Music at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Stuart went on to lecture in Film Music at Chichester University. During this time he created the ‘Expressing Computers’ lecture series with film-makers and composers presenting live audio-visual work. This opened the doors to inspiring partnerships and creative collaborations in photography and film. In 2008 Stuart released Most Interesting Person; a ‘self generative’ story where each subject nominated the next in an ongoing trail of connected interviews. The project took him around the world creating over 200 episodes of the world’s ‘most interesting’ people. This premiered at The Balhaus Ost, Berlin attracting 1,000 visitors over 24 hours. This format was later adapted for commercial commissions by Philips, the Van Gogh Museum, Ableton and ID&T. Other story-telling formats created by Stuart include the ‘I HEART….’ series. I HEART USA documented the 2016 US presidential election, which was screened at the Bicycle Film Festival in NYC and The House of St. Barnabas in Soho, London. The story of Stuart’s father’s escape from NAZI occupied Vienna in I HEART EUROPE. As a second generation survivor, Stuart’s interest in history features regularly and motivated him to write his first book, ‘The Short 6ft Tall Man’. In 2020 he will be releasing his new film For The Record, which has been selected for the Crystal Palace International Film Festival in London, as well as festivals in Berlin and The Hague.

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Ben is an international award-winning issue advocate and award-winning media producer and filmmaker. Over the last fifteen years, Ben has worked in and around every level of media production and has produced media for top officials from Arizona State and local government to the White House Communications Department, news packages, short films and political parodies. After working at the Arizona Republic and the Public Affairs sector, Ben transitioned his energy to telling stories through video and film. His first independent project, Pocket Vacations, was a video intensive travel app designed to give users a comprehensive, city-wide video travel guide, complete with presenters, behind-the-scenes footage and documentary styled stories about characters and attractions throughout the city of Amsterdam. Ben has also produced media for Heineken International, Interscope Records, and the rock band "Jimmy Eat World".

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I was born in Athens, Greece, and after school I studied computer science and camera operating. From 2008 I have been working as a freelance videographer in Europe and across the Atlantic, as ENG/SNG crew member, but also on documentaries and theatrical/cultural/fashion events. I had the chance to focus on global issues such as the climate change but also to embrace and promote minorities rights. Always paying attention to the detail that makes the difference but never forgetting to see the whole picture. From February 2014, I am working with my personal company named ‘Soul Definition’, based now in The Hague. On my LinkedIn profile you can see references from professionals that I have worked with (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrismeletis) and on my website you get a first-hand impression on my work in the past few years (http://dimitrismeletis.com/)

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CERTIFIED FILMMAKER. I have a heterogeneous background: I worked as a teacher (4 yrs), corporate consultant/trainer/coach (14 yrs) and filmmaker. I consider myself a ‘Renaissance Soul’: curious, adventurous and talented in more than one area. I know how to capture a story perfectly because of this combination of skills and experience. I have a ‘Fingerspitzengefühl’ for knowing how to make people feel comfortable on camera and have a 'female gaze' for aesthetics (interesting stories can be beautiful too). I invested in the latest gear that makes 4K quality possible, while the same camera (Panasonic GH4) doesn’t feel too intruding in people’s personal space. I guarantee high quality audio too. I went to film school in The Netherlands. I do all the camera + sound + editing myself.

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By Nature Films foundation is an award-winning (non-profit) organisation. We make storytelling documentaries about people and non-profit organisations that dare to be influential and bring about positive change for a fairer world. We are passionate about our commitment to social justice and the protection human rights and in particular of indigenous peoples, natural ecosystems and endangered species. In a changing world, By Nature Films foundation has been a stable, progressive force in making compelling documentaries that has expressed the world in creative, complex, cinematographic, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time.

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Alaye is a well experienced television director and video journalist for both national (VPRO, NTR) and local stations (AT5). But he also produces videos for online usage. His father a Nigerian bridge engineer and mathematician of royal descent, his mother a Dutch lawyer, he was born in Manchester UK. He was largely raised in The Netherlands where he lives at this moment in the capital Amsterdam. Due to his academic background with a master in History and Political science he has the ability as a video journalist to make in depth stories on a large variety of subjects. He focuses on economic, political and social subjects. In most cases the reports are character based using a lot of scenes and thereby avoiding ‘the talking head’. www.alaye.nl

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