Robert Knoth

Using powerful attention to detail, Knoth’s portraiture and documentary work has received international acclaim including two World Press Photo awards, the Prague Photo Prize, the American PDN awards and multiple Dutch Silver Camera awards.

His work has been published by (amongst others) New York Times, Mother Jones, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Guardian, La Repubblica, South China Morning Post, Foto8, Le Monde and Die Zeit.

After a career in pop photography, Knoth has been concentrating on photo documentary. His sober black and white portraits shot on large format camera have been compared with Diane Arbus, Eugene Smith and August Sander’s images of the early twentieth century.

Together with his wife Antoinette de Jong he is currently working on a longer term project which documents the impact of Afghan heroin in countries along the most trafficked routes from Afghanistan to Europe. The project is supported by the Sem Presser Fund for Documentary Photography and the Dutch Foundation for Democracy and Media.