Jens Klaprodt - Photography: Portfolio Deutsch

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p>The photographs displayed in this portfolio show people I have met during my private travels and humanitarian aid work in various African and Asian countries. <br> <br> For the last ten years, I have been photographing in developing countries, aiming to document social issues. The one outstanding feature of my photographs is the close personal relationship to the people I am portraying. During my international training as a social worker as well as my assignments as a logistical coordinator for Medecins sans Frontières, I have been able to spend considerable periods of time living with the native people of Africa and India.<br> <br> My photographs are photo-journalistic in a classical sense, and inspired by artists such as Robert Capa, Werner Bischof, Sebastiao Salgado and James Nachtwey, in the tradition of Magnum and Life Magazine. Among my best photographs are close-ups taken in South Sudan, which I find to be outstanding due to the particularly intense expressions on the faces of the people I have photographed. </p> </body>