Flip Franssen

The Netherlands - DuPho Dutch Professional Photographers

Specialisations:

reportage photojournalism architecture

Biography

With a preference for short reports, both free and in assignment, I work in the range between autonomous and journalistic photography, and focusses on the actuality in a broader sense. A mixture of aesthetics and social involvement, with attention to the graphical content of the image. My work is characterized as narrative photography, illustrative and well balanced, in black and white sometimes referring to the classic photography of the fifties. Mostly I work wilth available light, also in portraiture Sensitivity to atmosphere and observation were early in my life important . The editorial work is serving to a variety of clients, including national newspapers and magazines, p.r. -agencies en institutions in healthcare and education, such as NRC-Handelsblad/Next, Elsevier Magazine, De Gelderlander and the Academic Medical Center Radboud. Represented by photoagency Hollandse Hoogte since 1985. Dutch Silver Camera nominations: 2000, foreign news singlel (oil-pollution Brittany ) 2006, documentary Netherlands single (steelworks) 2009, art, culture and entertainment Series (ammunitionbunkers) 2010, national dialy news single (ISAF soldiers) 2015, nature and environment (birds-count) Bronze award FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2009 Nominated FEP European Photographer of the Year 2018, reportage/ photojournalism