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Rob Severein


Diemen (Greater Amsterdam area), the Netherlands
About

Rob Severein is born in 1964 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he also spends his youth. He studies design and typography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht (HKU). After graduating late 1988, he starts off working as an art director in the advertising industry.

In the years to follow, he is creatively responsible for multiple award winning campaigns at home and abroad, with various advertising agencies.

In 2011 he leaves his co-founded and successful advertising agency. He wants to spend more time in photography and joins the Amsterdam Academy of Photography for a 3-year Master's degree.

Since 2014, Rob is engaged in documentary photography and storytelling. His work on the people in the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl and his series about the AZOV battalion in Ukraine are published among others in VICE Magazine and NRC Handelsblad. It is also nominated for the 2015 SO Dutch Photography Awards.

Books by Rob Severein