Tag: Thomas de Wouters

Congo’s Youth Find Peace in a Violent Land – The New York Times

Congo’s Youth Find Peace in a Violent Land

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thomas de Wouters sought to document a growing youth movement devoted to nonviolence.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/congos-youth-find-peace-in-a-violent-land/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

Power has long been wielded with blunt force in Democratic Republic of Congo. That proved to be an ever-present challenge when a Belgian photographer, Thomas de Wouters, sought to document a growing youth movement devoted to nonviolence.

November 21, 2017
Documenting Ukraine with a Different Visual Approach – The New York Times

Documenting Ukraine with a Different Visual Approach

Thomas de Wouters’ square, black-and white images of Ukraine look as if they were made by a 1960s-era New York street photographer set loose on the modern-day front between Russia and Ukraine.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/documenting-ukraine-with-a-different-visual-approach/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

The Belgian photographer Thomas de Wouters took a less-traveled route last April, traveling through multiple checkpoints on damaged roads to Luhansk — a forlorn city that now bears scars of the continuing war.

September 23, 2015