{"id":55715,"title":"HAW Artist: Teun Voeten","description":"Teun Voeten was born in the Netherlands.  After a year as an exchange student in New Jersey, he started to study biology but after a year switched to cultural anthropology and philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands.  While studying, he grew interested in photography and learned the profession by working as a photo-assistant, both in Holland and in New York, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts in 1989.","content":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/mzk6hhmqtekglmb5mbw0enwo6hplcx5ahwj7tgutpl0amun5.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"mzk6hhmqtekglmb5mbw0enwo6hplcx5ahwj7tgutpl0amun5.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/><strong>Teun Voeten<\/strong><br \/>was born in the Netherlands. After a year as an exchange student in New Jersey, he started to study biology but after a year switched to cultural anthropology and philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands. While studying, he grew interested in photography and learned the profession by working as a photo-assistant, both in Holland and in New York, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts in 1989.<\/p><p>In New York, he also picked up his first assignments for magazines such as Details and High Times combining writing and photojournalism on subjects such as the Provo movement in the Netherlands, the elections in Nicaragua and the race riots in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/jop94uyuofjuhl1ybo2eozeckhv1axdetxtrmpra0t000ugd.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"jop94uyuofjuhl1ybo2eozeckhv1axdetxtrmpra0t000ugd.jpg.jpg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/><em>Punk at Central Station, Amsterdam (NL), 1986<\/em><\/p><p>After carrying out extensive fieldwork in a gold digger community in the Ecuadorian Andes, Voeten received his Masters in cultural anthropology in 1991 and moved to Brussels, Belgium. Over the years to follow, Voeten covered the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Haiti and Rwanda for Dutch, Belgian, German and American publications.<\/p><p>Read more here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teunvoeten.com\/teun-voeten.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.teunvoeten.com\/teun-voeten.html<\/a><\/p>","urlTitle":"haw-artist-teun-voeten","url":"\/blog\/haw-artist-teun-voeten\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/haw-artist-teun-voeten\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/healingartworks.org\/blog\/haw-artist-teun-voeten\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":false,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1775058880,"updatedAt":1775060698,"publishedAt":1775060697,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":429778,"name":"Healing Art Works"},"tags":[],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/xoc1o9qez9s3g6chqfty0ruqsifejpvlzq74tt6tm4wdiui6.jpeg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/xoc1o9qez9s3g6chqfty0ruqsifejpvlzq74tt6tm4wdiui6.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/xoc1o9qez9s3g6chqfty0ruqsifejpvlzq74tt6tm4wdiui6.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"","series":[],"similarReads":[{"id":55567,"title":"HAW Artist: Wayne Moss","url":"\/blog\/haw-artist-wayne-moss\/","urlTitle":"haw-artist-wayne-moss","division":429778,"description":"Wayne Moss is a life-long traveler and creative who has performed from the stage of heritage listed theatres to the deliciously miasmic floors of illegal dive bars.  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