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A Photograph by Chantal Heijnen exhibited at LagosPhoto 2011.

Chantal Heijnen is a documentary and portrait photographer and a devoted educator for the ICP Community Programs & Lantern Community Services in NYC.

Her former career as a social worker influences her photography – it’s intimate and socially engaged. She’s passionate about her long-term personal projects, creating portraits – through people and landscapes – of rarely seen communities.

Her work has been exhibited at LagosPhoto Festival, FotoFestival Naarden, FOAM, Bronx Documentary Center, Andrew Freedman Home, Photoville, and has been published in international newspapers and magazines like The New York Times, NYT LensBlog, Stern Magazine, Vrij Nederland among others