Pierre
Vanneste

Pierre Vanneste is a Belgianphotographer and filmmaker based between Brussels and Dakar,specializing in long-term reportage and documentary projects.

His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries (Biennale ofDakar Contemporary Art, Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi, FoMu,Zone i) and published in media outlets such as Médiapart,Libération, DOC! Photo Magazine, Courrier International (webversion), De Standaard, Tchak, Equal Times, and Alter Echo.

In 2018, he co-directed "Bargny, the real face of economic emergence"a transmedia documentary (photos, videos, and texts) about thedesignation of land for industrial purposes. The project wasshortlisted for the Visa d'Or for Digital Information 2019 (Visa pourl'image festival).

His project "DREMMWEL" (a photo project with enrichedvideo content) was published in 2020 by Éditions Yellow Now. It is along-term project on the extractivist model through fishing andoverfishing. This project has been exhibited in France, Belgium,Senegal, and Canada. One of the photographs from the project is nowpart of the permanent collection at the Musée de la Photographie deCharleroi.

He received the 2019 Photographic Grant from the FondationJean-Luc Lagardère for his project "P2O5, the Toxic Impact ofPhosphate" which he co-directed with author-journalist LaurenceGrun.

Since 2022, he has been working on various videographic andphotographic documentary projects in Senegal.

2024    [ P2O5 ] the toxic impact of phosphate   exhibition at Strasbourg European Parlement (FR)

2023    DREMMWEL   exhibition at "Vues d'Afrique" Film Festival - Montréal  (CA)

2022    DREMMWEL   OFF Dakar biennial  exhibition at Agence TRAMES - Dakar (SN)

2022    DREMMWEL   exhibition at the "C12" Horta Gallery - Brussels (BE)

2021    DREMMWEL   exhibition for the "NUIT BLANCHE de Paris" at Point Ephémère (FR)

2021    DREMMWEL   exhibition Musée de la photographie de Charleroi 18th national prize of open photography (BE)

2021    DREMMWEL    exhibition «Track&Trace» Documentary photography festival Kortrijk (BE)

2020   DREMMWEL   exhibition for the .tiff selection Fotomuseum Antwerpen FOMU (BE)

2020   DREMMWEL   exhibition at ZONE - i Image & Environement (FR)

2019    Bargny, ici commence l’émergence   exhibition at Festival des Libertés (BE)

2019    DREMMWEL   (Vivre! photographie de la résilience) Fondation Dapper (Dakar - Sénégal)