Artist: Flip Franssen

Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 g/m2, size 24x36cn, edition of 10.

Flip Franssen (1956) has been working in photo journalism and reportage photography since the early 1980s. Since the late 1990s, he has been one of the regular photographers for the national newspaper NRC. His work is characterized as illustrative, narrative photography, with a carefully chosen image composition. In 2000, he won the Silver Camera for the first time with a photo of oil pollution on the French coast by a sunken tanker. Five more nominations would follow later, and a public award nomination in 2018 with an image of the record low water in the Dutch rivers… A report about the commemoration of 20 years of mass murder in Srebrenica was nominated for the FEP European Photographer of the Year, category reportage.

He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, resulting in the end of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia, about which various graphic novels were made. Reports, such as in Spain (oil disaster in Galicia, solar energy in Andalucia, Romeria del Rocio), Calais (migrants in ‘the Jungle’), Srebrenica (Dutchbat and ICMP Tuzla) and Italy (garbage problems in Naples), have been published via photo pages in newspapers or travel magazines. In 2014 he was part of the Dutch entry for the Photoville festival in New York. In 2024, the Spanish province of Castile and Leon included a 1988 report on the city of Salamanca in its historical archive.

His first photo book from 1984 was the result of a social report about a working-class neighborhood in his hometown Nijmegen. This series was later republished in the bookazine ‘Hollandse Beelden’, as well as a number of color slides of his parents from the fifties that he restored. Four more photo books were published. Franssen’s roots lie in the river area of ​​the Netherlands, the land of the Maas and Waal. That is the subject of his latest book ‘Panorama Rivierenland’.