Bertien Van Manen
born 1942 in Netherlands, Bertien Van Manen lives and works in
Amsterdam. Van Manen shifted into documentary photography in 1977 after
some years as a fashion photographer. Her first book covered the living
condition of female immigrants in the Netherlands. In the 1980s she
worked from several countries, including Algeria, Nicaragua, the USA
and Eastern Europe. Her colour work of people in the former Soviet
Union and in China, published in the monographs A Hundred Summers, A
Hundred Winters (1994) and East Wind West Wind (2001), have been
exhibited in museums worldwide. In 2003 she was nominated for
the Citibank Photography Prize.
