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Documentary photographerLisbon · Represented worldwide

NadjaVoss

Long-form reportage on water, borders, and the people who live where the two collide.

Focus
Reportage & portraiture
Working since
2009
Represented by
Institute, Paris
Status
Available Q4 2026
A documentary frame from the Danakil assignment
Fig. 01 — The Salt Road, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, 2024

Assignments

2016–2025 · Twelve selected
A/01The Salt RoadDanakil, EthiopiaNational Geographic2024
A/02When the River MovesSundarbans, BangladeshThe New Yorker2023
A/03Last Ferry from CeutaStrait of GibraltarTIME2023
A/04The Dry SeasonLake Chad BasinThe Guardian Weekend2022
A/05Harbour WivesVestmannaeyjar, IcelandM Le Monde2021
A/06MeltwaterIlulissat, GreenlandGEO2020
Portrait from When the River Moves
Fig. 02 — Rahima, ferry pilot · Sundarbans
Landscape from Meltwater
Fig. 03 — Calving front at dawn · Ilulissat

I don’t photograph events. I stay long enough that the ordinary becomes the story.

Field note · Nadja Voss

Exhibitions

Water Lines · Fondation HCBParis, 2024
Borderland · FOAMAmsterdam, 2022
Visa pour l’ImagePerpignan, 2021

Recognition

World Press Photo, 1st Prize Stories2023
POYi Photographer of the Year2022
Ian Parry Scholarship2011

Clients

National Geographic—
The New York Times Magazine—
Médecins Sans Frontières—