About Nicole Segers

Nicole Segers (Tilburg, 1960) is documentary photographer. Her work consists mainly of long-term projects in which she focuses on contemporary subjects. She made several exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, amongst others during Festival Breda Photo, at De Kunsthal in Rotterdam, with Rem Koolhaas and OMA in Brussels, in Festival Photoreporter in St Brieuc (F) curated by Marc Prüst and in Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen. She published three main bodies of work in book form: Het Einde van Europa (Lemniscaat, Rotterdam 2004) and Het veer van Istanbul (Lemniscaat, Rotterdam 2010) - both translated in French: Gens des Confins, sur la frontiere orientale de l’Europe and Les passeurs d’Istanbul (Les editions Noir sur Blanc, Lausanne 2010 and 2013) and the latest book Bloed en honing - which was rewarded by the Dutch Photobook Award as Best text/photobook 2021. Her Aceh photos were published in the book 'Atjeh' from Anton Stolwijk, published by Prometheus. She teaches Documentary Photography at PhotoAcademy Amsterdam.

Nicole Segers's Books