Tomas van Houtryve

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Tomas van Houtryve
NationalityBelgian
Alma materColumbia University
Known forconceptual documentary photography, video installations
Notable work36 Views of Notre Dame, Lines and Lineage, Blue Sky Days, Traces of Exile
MovementContemporary art
AwardsInternational Center for Photography Infinity Award, CatchLight Pulitzer Center Fellowship, World Press Photo Award, Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents, Roger Pic Award, POY Photographer of the Year, Magnum Foundation Grant, Aaron Siskind Fellowship
Website https://tomasvh.com

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Tomas van Houtryve in 2022

Tomas van Houtryve is a Belgian visual artist, [1] director and cinematographer [2] working mainly with photography and video. He is known for using a wide range of contemporary and early image-making techniques. Van Houtryve is a Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, [3] an Emeritus member of the VII Photo Agency, [4] a National Geographic Explorer since 2024, [5] and a Contributing Artist for Harper's Magazine. [6]

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Life and career

Van Houtryve attended a university[ which? ] in Nepal, studying philosophy. He became internationally known for his photographs of the Maoist rebellion in Nepal, winning the Visa pour l'Image Ville de Perpignan award in 2006 [7] and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 2006. [8]

Van Houtryve next embarked on a seven-year photographic project to document life in the last countries where the Communist Party still remained in power: North Korea, Cuba, China, Nepal, Vietnam, and Laos. In 2010 he was named Photographer of the Year [9] in the Pictures of the Year International Competition. A monograph of the work titled Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism was published in 2012. [10]

Van Houtryve then turned his interest to the US military's use of surveillance drones with a series titled Blue Sky Days. [11] Supported by a Getty Editorial Grant of $10,000, [12] he used his own modified drone in the US to explore the implications of surveillance techniques used by the US both outside and within its borders. [13] [14] For this work, van Houtryve was awarded the 2015 International Center of Photography Infinity Award [15] and a second prize World Press Photo award. [16]

In 2016 van Houtryve received a grant from the Pulitzer Center to create a video installation about the European refugee crisis. [17] The work was exhibited at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography [18] the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art [19] and C/O Berlin. [20] Extracts from the project were published in a 2021 book by Steidl [21] and by The New Yorker. [22] In 2017, the video installation was acquired for the permanent collection of the International Center for Photography with funds provided by Marjorie and Jeffrey Rosen. [23]

Van Houtryve was selected for the inaugural CatchLight Fellowship in 2017 and granted $30,000 [24] for a project titled Lines and Lineage. The work explores America's collective amnesia of history, addressing the missing photographic record of the period when Mexico ruled what we now know as the American West. Van Houtryve photographed the region with glass plates and a 19th-century wooden camera. [25] He paired portraits of direct descendants of early inhabitants of the West—mestizo, Afro-Latin, indigenous, Crypto-Jewish—with photographs of landscapes along the original border and architecture from the Mexican period. [26] The work earned van Houtryve France's 2019 Roger Pic Award. [27] A monograph of the work was published in 2019 by Radius Books. [28] The book was adapted into a one-hour documentary by French television, co-directed by van Houtryve and Mathilde Damoisel. [29] The film was first broadcast in France in 2022. [30] It premiered in the United States with a screening at the Taos Center for the Arts under the title Far West – The Hidden History in 2022. [31] Van Houtryve's mesmerizing aerial footage of the Mexico–United States border was also used for the opening scene of the 2024 Errol Morris film Separated , which was premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

Following the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, van Houtryve was selected to photograph and film the damage and reconstruction of the iconic cathedral. His photo of Notre Dame was chosen for the cover of National Geographic Magazine in February, 2022. [32] A major solo exhibition of his photographs, featuring monumental prints, was exhibited on the public square in front of Notre Dame from March 2023 to May 2024. [33] His images of the cathedral were next exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in the south of France. [34] A monograph of his work, titled 36 Views of Notre Dame, was published in the fall of 2024 by Radius Books. [35]

Public collections

Van Houtryve's work is held in the following public collections:

Books

Awards

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Films

Other activities

Since 2015, Tomas van Houtryve has been invited as a lecturer and educator by several institutions including the University of Colorado at Boulder, [79] the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, the academy of the VII Foundation, [80] and Columbia University. [81] Teacher's guides and lesson plans [82] have been created based on van Houtryve's works by the Pulitzer Center and Stanford University. [83]

Tomas van Houtryve is a lifelong cyclist, having toured through the Himalayas, Rocky Mountains, and the Alps by bicycle. He participated in NORBA [84] national level mountain bike competitions and non-competitive events including L'Eroica in Tuscany.

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