Chris Keulen
photographer · author
Chris Keulen is a Dutch documentary photographer based in Maastricht. He studied Visual Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and Dutch literature at the University of Nijmegen. His work often focuses on long-term projects that explore everyday life, social documents, and neglected hinterlands both in the Netherlands and internationally. Notable themes in his photography include cycling races in Africa (specifically Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Senegal, and Cameroon), human rights issues in Rwanda and the DRC, and the surrealism of border regions like the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. He has received numerous awards, including eleven Zilveren Camera Awards and two World Press Photo Awards. Since 2022, he has served as a lecturer at the Arts Academy in Maastricht.[1,2,3]
- documentary photography
- cycling races
- human rights
- social documents
- surrealism
Books
Works by Chris Keulen
- 2008 Hete glassplinters; le tour d’Afrique Co-authored with P. Winnen.
- 1997 Rwanda, land zonder horizon
- 2013 Chez Nous
- 2025 Silent Song
Exhibitions
- 2025 Silent Song
- 2022 Tour d’Afrique
- 2022 Traversées
- 2015 Chez Nous
Awards
- 2018 Zilveren Camera (overall)
- 2022 Zilveren Camera (international news)
- 2000 World Press Photo Award (sport-series)
- 2011 World Press Photo Award (series)