User:Dumelie Sven

DUMELIE Sven (Poperinge, Belgium 14 September 1972) is a Belgian Photographer, with an Art Academic training in Fine Art Photography at the KASK (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten/Royal Academy of Fine Arts), Ghent, Belgium.

After travelling (on every possible mode in between a pushbike, public busses and 4WD Cars) in South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Asia he lost his heart to the dark continent of Africa. With a record of more than 100 different visited and well-travelled countries Dumelie Sven calls Africa his home, and can be seen as a real modern nomad or full time world traveller. Since 2002, Dumelie Sven has been working and living in Africa.

He is loosely based in Nairobi, Kenya. After a career as a field and travel guide for national and international organisations and NGOs, he decided to become a photojournalist. He has a huge understanding of the African continent, the cultural changes and impacts from the West (tourism) on the fragile African environment, the ethnic minorities and has also been a first eyewitness to those changes.

As a last witness he photographs and documents the last real African people with huge respect and knowledge. He focuses upon the phenomena of every day little lives and changes in Africa. Always on the look out for unique moments and situations in daily life. He has documented tragic consequences of typical African situations. Dumelie Sven has worked in West, East, North and Southern Africa, Palestine, Cuba, the Middle East, among others. His work is regularly published in African and European media. Currently working for Camerapix (A Press agency founded by Mohamed Amin) and A24Media (founded by the son of Mohamed Amin) in Nairobi Kenya, he is covering a wide range of news stories in the area. Besides this, he is freelancing for other media and can be assigned for missions in Africa and the Middle East.

Some of his work has been published in European and African newspapers, Ethiopian Airlines (Selamta) and Kenyan Airways (Msafiri) in-flight magazines and East African Media and magazines. His body of work -from his Coptic Trilogy series- was recently selected for a group exhibition (CANVAS Collection/Collection RTBF) in BOZAR Brussels Belgium. His art and anthropology works are known in some Benelux Fine Art Galleries and has an upcoming show at the ITG (Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde/Institute of Tropical Medicine) Antwerp, Belgium.

He is a full member of FCAEA (Foreign Correspondents’ Association of East Africa) and speaks Dutch, French, English and Spanish and gets by in Kiswahili and Amharic. His work is represented by A24Media and Camerapix (and is currently lobbing with American based press agencies).

www.dumeliesven.com http://www.camerapix.com http://www.a24media.com http://www.fcaea.org http://canvascollectie.canvas.be