Lisanne VAN HAPPEN

FOTODOK, Head of talent development, The Netherlands

4 Afternoon - 7 Morning
Lisanne van Happen supports upcoming talent within her work. She is a freelance curator, fundraiser and educator specialized in the field of documentary photography with a particular interest in social issues. She strives to connect people, organizations and create collaborations that are greater than the sum of its parts.
Lisanne has a BA in documentary photography from St. Joost in Breda. She studied social-cultural work and attended courses in sociology at Utrecht University.
Over the past ten years she worked on projects and developed programs and exhibitions for organizations such as: Docking Station, Prospektor, Critical Mass, Paris College of Art and St.Joost.
Currently Lisanne is talent development lead at FOTODOK where she develops programs with which she supports upcoming photographers on a financial, conceptual and productional level. FOTODOK is a space for documentary photography in the Netherlands and will be present this 2023 edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles with an exhibition at Monoprix.
English - Dutch
  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture