About
Niels Ackermann is a Swiss documentary photographer working for international press since 2007 and a founding member of agency Lundi13.
He lives between Kyiv, Ukraine and Geneva, Switzerland.
His first long term project, The White Angel, documenting the transition to adulthood in the neighbourhood of Chernobyl was published by Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc in 2016 and received multiple awards.
His second project: Looking for Lenin made together with french journalist Sébastien Gobert was published by Fuel Publishing (London) and Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc and premiered at the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles.
Niels also regularly partners with social, environmental and cultural institutions on documentary projects and workshops. He also gives frequent conferences and workshops on documentary photography, freelancing and fundings of documentary projects.
© Anna Ackermann 2015
Contact
Whatsapp / Telegram / Signal / Threema / Ukrainian phone:
+380 63 959 35 76
Swiss phone:
+41 77 402 69 53
E-mail: nack@nack.ch
Social networks:
I speak French, English a bit of Russian and German. Available for editorial, corporate and institutional assignments.
I'm sharing my time between Ukraine and Switzerland and travel between both every month. So don't hesitate to contact me if you have a project in any of these countries, or around.
I'm member of agency Lundi13. You can contact my colleagues directly through our website: www.lundi13.ch or by e-mail: info@lundi13.ch
Clients
Editorial: The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, Times.com, Foreign Policy, CNN, Wired, China Newsweek, National Geographic, The Financial Times, Politico, Die Zeit, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, L'Obs, Ouest France, L'Express, Courrier Japon, Le Temps, Die Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Das Magazin, L'Hebdo, L'Illustré, Tages Anzeiger, Die Weltwoche, Migros Magazin, Revue Hemisphere...
Corporate / Institutionals: Huawei, Hublot, Swiss Railways (SBB), Swiss Post, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Prix de Lausanne, La Comédie de Genève, Services Industriels de Genève, UNE, LargeNetwork, Stojan + Voumard, Solar Impulse, City of Geneva, Kyiv City Administration, Parti Démocrate Chrétien (PDC), Parti Libéral Radical (PLR), BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Greenpeace, Volvo Schweiz, Novartis, Paolo Coelho, Bulgari, Migros, Nestle, Swiss Development & Cooperation Agency, Sinomedica, Ecoaction Ukraine, Fenaco, FDDM…
Exhibitions
2018 Looking for Lenin, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2018 Looking for Lenin, ArtLab, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Looking for Lenin, Espace Images, Vevey, Switzerland
2018 Looking for Lenin, Side Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2018 Looking for Lenin; Opération Valmy, 7ème Nuit de la Photo,La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2017 Looking for Lenin; Opération Valmy Coalmine Gallery, Winterthur, Switzerland, curator: Peter Pfrunder
2017 Genève sa Gueule, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Looking for Lenin, Les rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France, curator: Peter Pfrunder
2017 The White Angel, Multimedia Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia, curator: Anna Zaitseva
2016 Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2016 BredaPhoto International photo festival, The Netherlands
2016 Visa Pour L'Image, Prix Rémi Ochlik, Perpignan
2016 La Nuit de l'année, Rencontres photographiques d'Arles, France
2016 LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism, Hannover
2016 Paris, Galerie Rue de L'Abbaye (former Magnum Gallery)
2016 Swiss Press Photo 2016, Zurich,
2016 Swiss Photo Awards Zurich, Photobastei 2
2016 Penguin, Slavutych
2016 Genève, sa gueule, Genève
2016 Chernobyl’s children grew up, Kiev
2016 Les Enfants de Chernobyl sont devenus grands,5èmes Nuits de la Photo, La Chaux de Fond
2016 En terrain sensible (collective exhibtion), Médiathèque du Valais, Martigny
2015 Les Enfants de Chernobyl sont devenus grands, Galerie Focale, Nyon
2015 Chernobyl’s children grew up, Sotheby’s, Zurich
2015 Waiting For The Flood, Cultural center of Huaraz, Peru
2015 Genève, Sa Gueule, Geneva, for Ville de Genève
2014 Waiting For The Flood, Jockey Club Lima, Peru (for COP20 climate forum 1-12 dec)
2014 Confrontations Gessiennes de la Photographie, Gex
2014 Exposition sur la femme africaine, Institut Français du Congo, Brazaville
2013 Au Bout du Lac, Palexpo, Geneva
2011 Swiss Press Photo 2011, Swiss National Museum, Prangins
2011 «Le choix de Christine», Gallery Krisal, Geneva
2011 Rezo.ch, pain quotidien, collective exhibition, Centre de la photographie, Geneva
Awards
2018 Swiss Press Photo, first prize, category Swiss Stories (Opération Valmy)
2018 Swiss Press Photo, 3rd place, category Abroad (Art. 51)
2017 PDN Award, category reportage (Looking for Lenin)
2016 Visa pour l'Image, Prix de la ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik
2016 Swiss Press Photo, photographer of the year
2016 Swiss Photo Awards, Best reportage
2016 Prix Pictet, Nomination
2015 Mountain of our Future Earth photo award
2015 Prix Focale Ville de Nyon
2015 Fondation BAT Prix Photo 2015 First prize & Audience Prize
2015 Selected by magazine l’Hebdo as one of the 100 young swiss preparing the future of the country for the annual event Forum des 100
2015 Prix Pictet, Nomination
2014 SMArt residency in Huaraz, Peru
2014 Globetrotter World Photo
2010 Swiss Press Award, 2nd place category News
Collections
Collection des Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
Fondation British American Tobacco Switzerland, Boncourt
Musée du Léman, Nyon
Ville de Nyon
Ville de Perpignan
Books
2017 Looking for Lenin. Fuel Publishing, London. by Niels Ackermann & Sebastien Gobert. Forewords by Myroslava Hartmond.
French version published by ed. Noir Sur Blanc, Lausanne
2016 L’Ange Blanc: Les Enfants de Chernobyl Sont Devenus Grands, ed. Noir Sur Blanc, Lausanne, Text by Gaetan Vannay, Forewords by Andrey Kurkov. English version: The White Angel