“Conflict in Ukraine” by Mads Nissen on Internazionale
Mads Nissen wins the World Press Photo Picture of the Year 2021
Congratulations to Mads Nissen winner of the World Press Photo PICTURE OF THE YEAR. The independent jury of the 2021 Photo Contest selected Mads Nissen’s photograph The First Embrace as the World Press Photo of the Year. In the winning image, Rosa Luzia Lunardi (85) is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at […]
Mads Nissen nominated for the World Press Photo – Picture of The Year 2021
Mads Nissen has been nominated for the World Press Photo – Picture Of The Year 2021 with a photograph from his coverage of the Covid 19 pandemic in Brazil. 85-year-old Rosa Luzia Lunardi is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, the first hug she receives in five months. In March, care homes across the country closed […]
Brazil Ravaged by “the Small Flu”
Rows of freshly dug graves at the Vila Formosa Cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, and the site where many of the city’s victims of COVID-19 are buried. The gravediggers are working hard to keep up with the death toll that continues to rise. New areas are taken into use and old graves […]
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The Big Melt
It’s spring in southern Chile, and among the conifers and the morning song of the birds you can hear the sound of global warming. When the ice bursts, it sometimes sounds like gun shots. At other times, it roars like a thunderstorm, while the heavy blocks of ice break off and fall to the surface […]
“The Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan” by Mads Nissen on D La Repubblica
Mads Nissen won the Award Of Excellence – Photographer of The Year at the POY – Pictures Of The Year 2018
Mads Nissen has been awarded at POY – Pictures of the Year International 2018 with the “Award of Excellence – Photographer of The Year“, with his work accomplished in Colombia for Politiken. After meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos, Danish star photographer Mads Nissen and award-winning journalist and author Dorrit Saietz have created an impactful portrait […]
We Are Indestructible
Colombia is among the ten most unequal countries in the world. Some of the most neglected people are the internally displaced – Los Desplazados – families who are fleeing land theft and violence in the countryside, only to end up in the large slums South of Bogota like here in Soacha. Like the places fled […]
“Amazonas” exhibition by Mads Nissen ad GAF Galerie in Hannover
On July 19th 2017 opens in Hannover, at GAF Galerie, the exhibition “Amazonas” by Mads Nissen. The show will be on display till August 20th. In his raw and poetic photo essay, documentary photographer Mads Nissen, takes his viewers deep into the mysterious and alluring Amazon rainforest in South America; where questions surrounding modernity, antiquity, […]
“Hope Over Fear” by Mads Nissen on Sette
South Sudan: A Young Nation Killing Itself
Peter Ksamy Jsiu, a government soldier with his 11 month old son Athian who is suppose to weight up to 11.5 kilos but only weights 5,5. His hair is losing color and his conciseness is weak – both clear signs of severe malnutrition. The country is at war and the father who cares for him […]
“Hope Over Fear” by Mads Nissen on D La Repubblica
“Amazonas” by Mads Nissen on L’espresso
“Homophobia” In Russia by Mads Nissen exhibition at Arezzo&Fotografia festival
An exhibition of the project “Homophobia In Russia” by Mads Nissen will be part of the Arezzo&Fotografia Festival that will take place in Tuscany from December 2nd to December 11th. The exhibition will take place at Circolo Aurora in Piazza Sant’Agostino. Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is becoming more and more difficult in Russia as sexual minorities […]
“Guarding Greenland” by Mads Nissen on D Lui La Repubblica
Homophobia in Russia
Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is becoming more and more difficult in Russia as sexual minorities are facing legal and social discrimination, harassment and even violent ‘hate crime’ attacks from religious and national conservative groups. In June 2013, Russia’s homophobia moved from the streets into the country’s legislation as the State Duma unanimously […]
WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie – Lecture
World Press Photo – Picture of the Year 2015
World Press Photo – A Phone Call with the Winner of the Picture of the Year
Mads Nissen is the winner World Press Photo Picture of the Year 2015
Mads Nissen won the World Press Photo Picture of the Year 2015 with a photograph from his long term project about Homophobia in Russia. The selected image is a portrait of Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment in St. Petersburg, Russia. “We thought it was a beautiful image,” says jury chair […]
Homophobia in Russia – Les Rencontres D’Arles 2014 – Nuit De L’année
Arctic Outposts
Tobias Damgaard-Petersen, 29, Member of the Royal Danish military unit Sirius Patruljen. Sirius Patruljen is based in Daneborg and consists of five teams of two men who on dogsleds patrol an area about the size of Brazil. The members of this elite unit must pass a highly demanding mental examine and once stationed they will […]
Amazonas
Peru, Iquitos. The biggest city in the world without road connection to the outside world. Floating houses on The Amazon-river. Just as people reach into the forest, so the forest reaches for us here on the concrete. Iquitos symbolizes the dream of a better life. An effective magnet that pulls impoverished hopefuls through the dense […]
Libyan Revolution
With the assistance of the international military coalition the rebels have now taken over the city of Ajdabiya. Shortly after the fall of Ajdabiya. Burned out tanks belonging to the Pro-Gardaffi forces destroyed by the international military coalition. Rebels fighters and locals are celebrating the victory. Man stands on a burning tank belonging to pro-Gardaffi […]
In the Name of Victoria
The original photograph of baby Victoria which caught Cecilie M. Hansen’s attention was published in Danish daily Berlingske in September 2010. Victoria – then called ‘Ghane’ – was lying alone in a back room of the public maternity hospital Paropakar in Kathmandu, Nepal. November 2010. Cecilie M. Hansen has arrived in Kathmandu. In the warmth […]