Pieter Jan Meuwissen
Pieter Jan Meuwissen was born in 1985 in Neerpelt, Belgium. Although he initially was trained as a Biologist, he quickly became passionated about travel and photography. He currently studies photography at the Sint Lucas Academy of Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
One can say that the real photographer was born in 2016, when he decided to go out into the world for six months. As a freelance photographer for "The Nomads of Vranckx" he worked on various photo projects in Asia and Africa. The resulting series "From The Dust Lands", about desertification in Egypt and Ethiopia, was selected for Photography Circuit Flanders and is currently touring cultural centers in Flanders. For the series "Barangay" he is regularly visiting Manilla, where he documents the daily life some of the poor areas of the city. This work was awarded in 'de donkere kamer' with the top prize for emerging photographers in 2019. Selected images of this project are currently exposed at FOMU Belgium.