Through her love of lines, strong moments, shadows, funky details and bold colors, Dutch photographer Ewien van Bergeijk-Kwant
seeks to capture Hope and Beauty in everyday life
through her lens.
Her curious nature brings her the most unexpected adventures while wandering the African streets, trying to discover what African life really
holds. Once she thinks she has seen it all, something totally unexpected unfolds itself in front of her eyes.
Though much of her work is vivid and bright, she doesn’t shy away from capturing the harder side of the beautiful continent she came to love. Having lived abroad for 15+ years, she has learned to take herself less seriously. African resilience and persistence despite their circumstances, inspires her daily to fully embrace life as it comes.
BIO
Ewien van Bergeijk – Kwant (1974) studied (Visual) Communications in the Netherlands. She is a Christ follower, wife, visual storyteller, book lover and the voice behind
b-twienCLICKS | Film & Photo.
She uses her passion for photography to raise awareness and funds for non-profit work in West-Africa. Building relationships with people forms the foundation of her art. Although her travels often take Ewien and her husband around the globe, Senegal, West-Africa is where she calls home.
Her work, both photo and video, has been seen in Africa and Europe. A recent photo series, Dreams of a Talibe, was on display in France to raise awareness and funds for the work being done among this group of beautiful but tormented kids.
One of her recent pictures,
Dog Bar Open (2022)
and
Surreal Surroundings (2020), received an
Honorable Mention Award
in the Click VOICE Image Collection - category Humor and Taking Shape. This yearly competition has more than 40,000 submissions and the image made it in the top 2%.
"Voice is an international photography collection created entirely by women.
Through each photographer's unique lens, the Voice Competition & Collection provides a platform for real women to share real stories. With almost 40,000 images entered annually, Voice is one of the most powerful visual documentations by, of, and for women around the world."
One
of her own favorites, Passed
out,
was selected for inclusion in the 2018 VOICE Image Collection from an extremely competitive, truly incredible pool of almost 48,000 entries. It was on display in Dana Point, California and appeared in the January/February issue of Click Magazine.