Dorte Verner
AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Recent Awards:
Winner of the Nikon Photo Contest 2016-2017. Grand Prize Winner of the Award for the Most Popular Entry: Disappearing fishing method by Moken.
Winner 1st prize, 2020 International Photography Awards (IPA), The Lucie Foundation for the series: Forgotten Garífuna People - BLM!
Winner Bronze Prize, Paris 2020 Prix de la Photographie (Px3) for the series: Black life Matters -Also for Garifuna People
Winner 1st prize, 2018 International Photography Awards (IPA), The Lucie Foundation for the series: Wonder Girls and Women - The African Refugee Crisis.
Winner Bronze Prize, Paris 2019 Prix de la Photographie (Px3) for the series: The Last Layap Hat Maker in Bhutan .
Winner Silver Prize, Paris 2018 Prix de la Photographie (Px3) for the series: Moving Sand.
Winner 2nd Prize, 2018 International Photography Awards (IPA), The Lucie Foundation for the series Disappearing Wodaabe People and Culture.
Photographer of the Year 2018, International Photography society, Washington D.C., USA.
Exhibitions:
Africa: A Continent on the Move, a solo exhibition by Dorte Venrer at Jica, Sapporo, Hoikkaido, Japan. April-June 2023.(ongoing)
Africa: A Continent on the Move, an exhibition with Sadao Watanabe and Dorte Venrer at Fujifilm, Japan. Aug. -Dec. 2019 It was also shown in Yokohama and Osaka.
Traversée mauritanienne, a solo exhibition by Dorte Verner in the National Museum of Mauritania. Mar. 13, 2019 - (ongoing)
The Sahel, Resilient People in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger. A solo exhibition by Dorte Verner in The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA. Mar. 19, 2018 - (ongoing).
The Silk Road - Photography Biennale of Tianshui, China. A multi-artist exhibition and Dorte Verner exhibits 12 photographs from Iran, Jordan, Oman, and Syria. Jun. 20 - Oct. 31, 2018.
People and Places - Global Human Photography, a solo exhibition by Dorte Verner at the Air France Lounge, JFK, New York. Jul. 1- Oct. 31, 2019.
The Wonder People, a solo Exhibition by Dorte Verner at Photoworks Gallery, Washington D.C., USA. Jan. 19 - Feb. 27 2018. The Washington Post and The Washington City Paper reviewed the show (click on link to read reviews). The Wonder People exhibit is a series of photographs of children and adults caught in the global refugee crisis. Dorte Verner captured the exhibited photographs of people caught in 22 countries and originally from Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kurdistan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and more over the past three years. The photographs are a rare look into the life of “The Wonder People” around the globe.
Recent Interviews, Movies, other:
Nikon Success Stories: 01 Dorte Verner: Capturing and sharing the critical state of the world.
Movie: Nikon Photo Contest 2018-2019 Promotion with Dorte Verner.
International Photographic Organization: Interview with Dorte Verner.
Nikon Judge, Nikon Storytellers Scholarship ( Movie competition.)
Recent Publications:
GEO Magazine, Moken Fisherman on two pages; October 2018.
Air France Magaine, October 2019,
Phoneix Magazine, Cover; Fall 2018.
Other Awards:
Winner 3rd prize, 2021 Phink Lady Food Photographer of the Year for the series: Bring Home the harvest - Wonder Children
World Bank 2018 Sustainable Development award for report on refugees and new frontier agriculture technologies.
Winner of the Nikon Photo Contest 2016-2017. Grand Prize Winner of the Award for the Most Popular Entry: Disappearing fishing method by Moken.
Winner 1st prize, 2017 International Photography Awards (IPA), The Lucie Foundation for the Moken peoples series in the Traditions and Culture category.
Winner 3rd place, 2017 International Photography Awards (IPA), The Lucie Foundation for the Refugee Children series in the Social Cause category.
Santa Fe Portraits Photo Contest 2017: Honorable mention for Mother.
Winner #Connect4Climate.
Special Blue Prize: Two Honorable Mentions.https://www.connect4climate.org/initiative/all4thegreen-contest-special-blue-prize-winner-world-oceans-day?CID=WAT_TT_Water_EN_EXT
Photographer of the Year 2017, International Photography society, Washington D.C., USA.
Exhibitions :
USA: Annual IPS Exhibit, a multi-artist show in The International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., USA. 2022.
USA: People and Places - Global Human Photography, an exhibition by Dorte Verner at the Lapop Gallery in Washington D.C. in decmber, 2019.
International Photo Society Annual Photo Exhibition. A multi-artist show at the Preston Lounge, Washington D.C., USA. Sep. 21- Oct. 31, 2018.
USA: Without Borders, a solo exhibition by Dorte Verner in Henry Luce III Center for Arts and Religion, Washington D.C., USA. Sep. 17 - Jan. 30, 2018.
Greece: Blank Wall Gallery: People and Winter exhibit. November 2017.
China:
Shanghai: August 2017 at Nikon Plaza Shanghai. http://www.nikon.com.cn/microsite/nikonplaza/sh/index.html
Beijing: September 2017 at Nikon Plaza Beijing. http://www.nikon.com.cn/microsite/nikonplaza/bj/index.html
Guangzhou: October 2017 at Nikon Plaza Guangzhou. http://www.nikon.com.cn/microsite/nikonplaza/gz/index.html
India:
Delhi: November 2017 at All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society. http://www.aifacs.org.in/
Mumbai: November 2017 at National Centre for the Performing Arts
http://www.ncpamumbai.com/
Czech Republic, Prague: September 2017 at Nikon Photo Gallery. http://www.nikonphotogallery.cz/
The United Kingdom, London: December 2017 at Center of Excellence.
France, Paris: November 2017 at Salon de la Photo. https://en.lesalondelaphoto.com/
Japan:
Nikon Photo Contest 2016-2017 Photo Exhibition: DAIKANYAMA T-SITE GARDEN GALLERY in Tokyo. July 29 to August 2, 2017. http://real.tsite.jp/daikanyama/english/
Nikon Plaza Shinjuku, THE GALLERY through October 2017.
Nikon Museum, Shinagawa, Tokyo.
Nikon President's Office, Nikon, Tokyo.
Italy: #Connect4Climate two photos are exhibited in Piazza Maggiore Bologna leading up to the G7. https://t.co/49t6NLu2bU
The United States
The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA: Large solo exhibit: Faces of Resilience, June 20 to July 7, 2017, James D. Wolfensohn Atrium and from July 7 onwards on the floor of the Vice President of Africa. This photojournalism exhibit features 25 large photographs Dorte made in Uganda, Kenya and Niger in early 2017—three countries hosting a large number of refugees and IDPs with very limited resources. the exhibit documents, through photographs and narratives, the resilience and challenges faced by refugees and host communities.
The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA. International Exhibit, ongoing.
The International Monetary Fund, June and July 2014. IPS Exhibit. International exhibit with six photographs by Dorte from Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, and Thailand.
People in a Changing Climate, The World Bank, Permanent exhibition(ongoing).
Awards and exhibitions 2016:
Best Photo exhibited in Metropolitan Washington D.C., USA, selected by the City Paper.
International Photography Award (IPA) winner: series “Indigenous Peoples Under Climate and Other Treats” in IPA's 2016 social course category.
Winner of International Photographic Society 2016 competition with Snow Day. Exhibit in IMF, June 2016.
Shutterbug published photo of Dao Peoples in Vietnam (April, 2016; page 16).
Exhibits: Social Implications of Climate Change at Photo Works, Washington D.C., USA (March) and at the IMF (June and October).
Awards and exhibitions 2015 & 2014
Photographer of the Year award the International Photographic society, 2015.
Honorable Mention for Cuban Joy, Santa Fe Workshops, 2015.
Honorable Mention for Cuban Joy, International Photography Award (IPA), 2015.
Photographer of the Year 2015 International Photography society, Washington D.C., USA.
Photographer of the Year 2014, International Photography society, Washington D.C., USA.
Dorte’s work wass exhibited in: The Louvre, Paris ( Koro Boys); Center for Digital Imaging Arts, the International Monetary Fund, Tryst, the World Bank, the Goethe Institute, Photo Works, and the Foto Central at FotoWeekDC.
Selected Books and Other Publications:
In 2012, Dorte's book Arab People in Transition: Climatic and Cultural Change won third place in FotoWeekDC International Award Competition in the Photojournalism category.
Dorte published a second photo book about Indigenous peoples in Omo Valley, Ethiopia and climate change: People of the Omo Valley Under Climate and Other Pressures.
Dorte’s photos are published in magazines such as in Shutterbug, Environment Matters and on websites e.g. the World Bank and IFPRI's Arab Spatial. Dorte's photographs are displayed on covers and inside books:
Cover of Book and documentation in "Drought in Brazil", CRS Press, 2016.
Increasing Resilience to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector in Jordan and Lebanon
Syria Rural Development in a Changing Climate,” Washington, D.C., World Bank
The Invisible Poor; A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Water Crisis Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East.
Dorte has served as a judge in numerous photo contests, including Nikon Movie competition 2018, USA; Picture Inequality: A Global Photo Contest by the World Bank with submissions from 71 countries.