About Iris Janssens

Iris Janssens (1992, Belgium) received a master’s degree in photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 2017.

Her work mainly consists out of long-term investigative documentary projects, such as her latest book ‘Did you know?’, which received international acclaim, winning the Kassel Dummy Award in 2019.

Awards

2019: 1ST PRIZE: Kassel Dummy Award

2017: Sony KASK Master in Photography Award

Exhibitions

ITALY, ROME // Officine Fotografiche Roma // January 2020 More Info
GERMANY, WORPSWEDE // RAW Phototriennale // 21 March – 19 April 2020
AUSTRALIA, MELBOURNE // PHOTO 2020 // 23 April – 10 May 2020
KROATIA, ZAGREB // Organ Vida - International Photography Festival // December 2019
PARIS // Paris Photo // 7 - 10 November 2019
ROMANIA, CLUJ-NAPOCA // Fotopia Collective Festival // 10 - 20 October 2019
DENMARK // Photobook Week Aarhus // 3 - 6 October 2019
PORTUGAL // Encontros da Imagem //13 September – 7 October
ISTANBUL // Istanbul Photobook Festival // 12 - 15 September 2019
CHINA // Photo Book Festival Ningbo Jiazazhi // September 2019
IRELAND, DUBLIN // PhotoIreland Festival // 5 - 28 July 2019
SPAIN // IED Madrid - Istituto Europeo di Design during PHotoEspaña // 5 June - 25 July 2019
GERMANY // Kassel Photobook Festival // 11 May – 12 May 2019
BELGIUM // FOMU Antwerp, Photobook Belge // 01.03.2019 - 06.10.2019
BELGIUM, GHENT // De langste galerie, land van fotografie // 2017
BELGIUM, GHENT // De kotroute // 2017
BELGIUM, ANTWERP // De kotroute // 2017

Book ‘Did you know?’ sold at

Artbooks online (Publication) 2021
Bildband Berlin (Publication) 2021
Tipi Bookshop Brussels (Dummybook) 2017
Les Rencontres d’Arles (Dummybook) 2017
Unseen Amsterdam (Dummybook) 2017
The London Photograph Fair (Dummybook) 2017
New York Art Book Fair (Dummybook) 2017