thomas vanden driessche

thomas vanden driessche
22 place maurice van meenen
1060 bruxelles
m +32[0] 478 24 00 51
t +32[0] 2 851 57 27
[email protected]
www.studiofiftyfifty.be
born the 11th october 1979 in leuven
nationality belgian
single
driving license b
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Administrator of studio fiftyfifty, graphic design & photo agency
Freelance documentary photographer member of the collectif out of focus
09.2007 - …
International Committee of the Red Cross [communication officer]
02.2006 - 09.2007 Belgian Red Cross [corporate partnership manager]
01.2005 - 02.2006 Belgian Red Cross [press officer]
06.2004 - 08.2004 United Nation Development Program UNDP, Rabat, Morocco [trainee in undp communication department]
03.2003 - 08.2003 Panorama Cajamarquino & La Republica, Cajamarca, Trujillo, Lima, Peru [press photographer]
09.2002 - 12.2002 Ashanivas, Tamil Nadu, Chenai, India [communication officer for the indian ngo ashanivas]
10.2001 - 07.2002 Belgian television, rtbf [assistant of the news editor]
10.2001 - 02.2002 Université Libre de Bruxelles, ulb [tv journalism assistant]
2010 - …
2009 - …
STUDIES & DIPLOMAS
2005 Belgian
Technical Cooperation, ctb [ctb formation’s cycle certificate]
Université Catholique De Louvain, réseau européen noha-echo
[european master’s program in international humanitarian assistance | great distinction]
1997 - 2002 Université Libre de Bruxelles [master in journalism | distinction]
MÉMOIRE ‘Les organisations internationales de défense de la liberté de la presse,
tour d’horizon de la situation actuelle’
[bachelor in information and communication studies]
1996 - 1997 Hermitage High School, Richmond USA [senior year diploma]
2003 - 2004
VARIED EXPERIENCES
trip in Lebanon with the team of the Master in Humanitarian Assistance.
Local study on the post-conflict situation in the country.
02.2002 - 06.2002 Erasmus Fellow in the French Institute of the Press in the University of Paris II [Panthéon-Assas].
Resident of the Biermans-Lapôtre Fondation
[Belgian Fondation which is a part of “Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris”].
08.1997 - 07.1998 Senior year at Hermitage High School in Virginia [USA] with the international exchange program of AFS.
03.2004 - 05.2004 Study
PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS AND EXPERIENCES :
- Lauréat of the Parole Photographique Price in 2009
- Winner of 5 awards in the 2010 and 2011 editions of the PX3 Prix international de la Photographie Paris
- Nominee to the Black and White Spider Awards 2011
- ‘Coup de Coeur de l’Association Nationale des Iconographes’ in the framework of the Visa pour l’image 2011
Portfolio readings
- Press publications in Le Soir, Le Nouvel Observateur, le VIF l’Express, Le Soir, ELLE Déco,…
- Work presented in collective exhibitions in Paris (Gare de l’Est, Espace Dupon, Bibliothèque MK2), Lille (Transphotographiques 2011) and Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, The Egg).
- Invited to be a jury member to the prestigious price “Visa d’or Humanitaire du CICR” in 2011
- In charge of photography trainings and workshops for NGO’s workers and volunteers (Red Cross, ICRC, Plan Belgique)
- Expertise in Adobe Photoshop, lightroom, Bridge...
- Expertise in all the digital & argentic photography processes
LANGUAGES
French › Maternal language
English › Very good active knowledge
Spanish › Very good active knowledge
Flemish › Notions