Alice Smeets was born in 1987 in the German-speaking part of Belgium. Fascinated by documentary photography, she learned her skills as an assistant to the Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths and received a distinction for her MA (Photojournalism at LCC). Her main focus is photographing social and cultural issues, and currently she is working on a series about Haiti and modern witchcraft in Europe and the USA. Smeets won the “Unicef Photo of the Year” award in 2008 and the “Canon ProfiFoto Award 01/08, she was a finalist for the Inge Morath Award 2008 and was selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop XXI. For her Haiti work, she received an award from the Belgian Fondation de la Vocation in 2009. In September 2009, her first solo exhibition will be staged in the Ludwig Forum for International Art. The main focus will be on her photographs of children’s everyday lives in Haiti.
Curated by Dr. Brigitte Franzen
Alice Smeets, Selected works in the exhibition