Alice Smeets

View works. Alice Smeets, THE DEATH, 2014
THE DEATH, 2014
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1987

 

  

Born in Eupen, Belgium

 

2005

 

 

 

  

Highschool graduation; language school in New Zealand; studies photography in Liége; undertakes her first trip to Haiti; works as an assistent to Phililp Jones Griffiths of Magnum Photos, New York

 

2008

 

 

  

Receives the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award for one of her works
from the series "Growing up in Haiti"

 

2009

 

 

  

Exhibits at the Museum Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen,

Germany (First important solo show)

 

2011

 

  

3rd price POYi for Multimedia Portfolio

 

2014

  

Documentary film AIDEPENDENCE with Frédéric Biegmann
     

Alice Smeets lives and works in Eupen/Belgium and Haiti

 

Ghetto Tarot


Inspired by the creativity and strength of the citizens of Haiti, Alice Smeets started her photographic project with the Haitan group of artists “Atis Rezistans” – a new artistic interpretation of the traditional “Rider-Waite” Tarot deck.