Jeroen Toirkens

Jeroen Toirkens (Netherlands, b. 1971) studied Photographic Design at the Royal Academy for the Visual Arts in The Hague, and since 1995 has been working as a free-lance photographer. He focuses particularly on social documentary photography and has published photo essays in Trouw, de Volkskrant, Internationale Samenwerkingand De Standaard, among other sources. In 2009 he received the first prize in The Silver Camera in the foreign documentary category, for a series on Tiniteqilaaq in East Greenland.