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A documentary frame from the Danakil assignment
Documentary photographerLisbon · Represented worldwide

Nadja Voss

Image: Fig. 01 · The Salt Road, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, 2024

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
Portrait from When the River Moves
Fig. 02 · Rahima, ferry pilot · Sundarbans

When the River Moves · Sundarbans, Bangladesh

Landscape from Meltwater
Fig. 03 · Calving front at dawn · Ilulissat

Meltwater · Ilulissat, Greenland

Assignments

2016–2025 · Twelve selected
A/01

The Salt Road

Danakil, EthiopiaNational Geographic2024 A/02

When the River Moves

Sundarbans, BangladeshThe New Yorker2023 A/03

Last Ferry from Ceuta

Strait of GibraltarTIME2023 A/04

The Dry Season

Lake Chad BasinThe Guardian Weekend2022 A/05

Harbour Wives

Vestmannaeyjar, IcelandM Le Monde2021 A/06

Meltwater

Ilulissat, GreenlandGEO2020

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