Sanne De Wilde

Sanne De Wilde (1987, BE) graduated with great honors from the Master of Fine Arts program at KASK in Ghent (Belgium) in 2012. She is a visual artist working with photography, film, installation, and painting, creating long-term projects exploring mythology, genetics, identity, perception, and systemic violence through collaborative storytelling. Her project The Dwarf Empire received the Photo Academy Award (2012) and the International Photography Award Emergentes DST (2013), while Snow White won the 16th Prix National Photographie Ouverte and the NuWork Award. In 2014 and 2016, she was awarded the Nikon Press Award as the most promising young photographer and was selected by the British Journal of Photography as one of the world’s best emerging talents in 2014. In 2016, she received the Firecracker Grant, PHmuseum Women’s Grant, and Zilveren Camera for The Island of the Colorblind, and in 2019, Land of Ibeji, made with Bénédicte Kurzen, won the World Press Photo Award and multiple other international prizes. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in major festivals. Since 2013, Sanne De Wilde has collaborated with De Volkskrant and De Standaard, is a Nikon Ambassador since 2017, completed a two- year professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund, and currently teaches at the International Center for Photography (New York) and the Houston Center for Photography.