Articles by Marielle van Uitert
Marielle van Uitert (1973) documentary photographer, graduated from the Dutch School for Photography Amsterdam and Boxtel. Van Uitert made both a wide range of features in Afghanistan, embedded as unembedded, in Iraq, Syria, Gaza, West Bank, El Salvador, Colombia, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Lebanon, Mexico etc. Her book Bye Bye Bullshit, 29868 minutes with the last Dutch patrols in Afghanistan 2010 was published in 2011. In 2010 she was second prize winner overall for the United Nations Development Programme in New York featuring the picture ‘Liquid Gold’ which she made in the Central African Republique for Cordaid. She was first price winner for the Zilveren Camera 2015, foreign documentary (series), second prize winner for the Zilveren Camera 2011, foreign news and first price winner for the Italian IntimaLente/Visual Ethnography 2015, Phototales: God is not for girls. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards. In 2017 she was first price winner for the Italian IntimaLente/Visual Ethnography 2017, Phototales: Duterte's War on Drugs. Zilveren Camera 2nd price series 2019 War on drugs Mexico, 2021 Zilveren Camera 1st price series Nature and Science/Dead wolves serve science In 2013 she published a book Blik op de Oorlog/Faces of War including 6 years of war-photography simultaneously with her exhibition in NM Kamp Vught. Van Uitert about her work: “I make many features around the world for both NGOs and private work. It is my passion to show war through small and personal stories in order to give vivacious wars, violence or poverty a personal face. The tears of an Afghan mother are the same as the tears of a Dutch mother”. In 2016 she published a book Duizend Ogen which contains work of the past 12 years. For the past 5 years she is doing photographic research on wolfs all over the world.
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk
- VIDEO: The truth about Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary | Chasing Deforestation
- New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group
- Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve
Oceans
- Indonesian village forms coast guard to protect octopus in Mentawai Islands
- From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model
- Seventy-plus nations sign historic high seas treaty, paving way for ratification
- First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass
Amazon Conservation
- Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases
- Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies
- New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon
- Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights
Land rights and extractives
- Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans
- Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
- Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
Conservation Effectiveness
- Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows
- From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model
- Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital
- Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest
- Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams