John Vink (Brussels, 1948) is a Belgian photographer.
Vink studied photography at La Cambre. He began to work as an independent photographer and freelance journalist in 1971. With winning the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 1986, he came to international attention. In 1993, Vink was nominated as a member of Magnum Photos and since 1997 he is a full member of the renowned photo collective. Work
Since 1985, Vink is working on a regular basis for the French newspaper Libération. He also launched a personal project, Water in the Sahel, for which he traveled to Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal for several years. In 1986, he wins the Eugene Smith Prize for that work.
Agence VU will be established in Paris, an agency of photographers in Paris. Vink closes from the beginning.
In 1987 Vink launched a project on refugee camps in the world. For this he draws to India, Mexico, Honduras, Sudan, Hungary, Thailand, Turkey, Malawi, Kurdistan, Bangladesh, Croatia, Angola. In 1994, an exhibition, Refugiés, was devoted to the project at the Center National de la Photographie (Paris). The book appeared a year earlier.
In Peuples d'En Haut, a series of communities living in mountain regions (Guatemala, Laos, Georgia) emphasizes how the difficult living conditions make the people concerned aware of their cultural identity. The project started in 1993 and in September 2004 the book appeared at Editions Autrement.
Since 2000, Vink lives and works in Cambodia, with the intention of concentrating on one country instead of traveling. Since 2016, Vink is back in Belgium, he lives and works in Brussels. In June 2017, Vink retired from the renowned photo-collective Magnum Photos. Book Overview
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