Farren van Wyk (1993) is a South African and Dutch Photographer and Educator. She holds a BA in Photography and an MA in Cultural & Visual Anthropology—her research-based work centres around decolonial methods of changing historical and cultural misrepresentations of people of colour.
Van Wyk is a member of the African Photojournalist Association with World Press Photo, Black Women Photographers, PH Museum and Women Photograph.
She currently holds two positions as a Research teacher at the University of Arts in Utrecht (HKU) and a Website & Photo Editor at ZAM.
With Merit Scholarships, she attended the Charcoal Bookclub Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review in 2022 and the Portfolio Review in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2023. In the Netherlands, she is part of the 2024 Fotodok Talent Embassy Program with the funding of the Pictoright Fund. She is an emerging artist with the European-based FUTURES.
