Teun Voeten

Quick Facts

Full Name	Teun Voeten
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Oct 25, 1961(1961-10-25)
Age	63
Birthplace	Boxtel
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Brabant
Horoscope	Scorpio

Teun Voeten Biography

Teun Voeten is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on October 25, 1961 in Boxtel, North Brabant, Netherlands.

In New York, Voeten was accepted by the photo agency Impact Visuals and did his first assignments for magazines such as Details, EAR and High Times in which he both wrote and took photos. He researched the Provo movement in the Netherlands, covered the race riots in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (1989), reported from the elections in Nicaragua (1990) and photographed the SCUD attacks on Tel Aviv during the first Gulf War in 1991. Voeten obtained his master’s in anthropology in 1991 after carrying out three months of fieldwork using participant observation in a remote community of gold diggers in the Andes in Ecuador. After his graduation, he moved to Brussels and started to cover the unfolding civil war in Yugoslavia. In the following years, he became a full- time war correspondent, covering the conflicts in Haiti, Rwanda, Colombia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Sudan for publications in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the USA.

Voeten was born in Boxtel, Netherlands. He started to take his first photos with a small 35mm point-and-shoot camera while spending one year as an exchange student in New Jersey. Later, during his studies in cultural anthropology and philosophy at Leiden University, he grew more interested in photography and learned the profession by assisting fashion and architectural photographers, both in the Netherlands and in New York, where he attended several courses at the School of Visual Arts in 1989. His first photo trips brought him to the industrial Ruhrgebiet in Germany, but also to the impoverished inner cities of New York, where he photographed the South Bronx and Harlem.

Teun Voeten Net Worth

Teun Voeten is one of the richest Anthropologist from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Teun Voeten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Teun Voeten (born 25 October 1961) is a Dutch photojournalist and cultural anthropologist specializing in war and conflicts. In 1996 he published the book Tunnelmensen about homeless people living in an old railroad tunnel in Manhattan. He also wrote books on the war in Sierra Leone and made a photo book on the drug violence in Mexico, on which subject he wrote a PhD thesis at Leiden University.

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Voeten arrived in Baghdad just after the American-led invasion of 2003 and photographed the immediate aftermath of the war. Six months later he returned to Iraq and was embedded with the US forces for Maclean’s magazine with Canadian writer Sacha Trudeau. Over the last years, Voeten photographed the American troops in Afghanistan a few more times more. He also worked in the Gaza strip (Israeli bombardments), the DR Congo (ongoing civil war) and North Korea (daily life and socialist-realist architecture) as well as the refugee crisis in the Darfur area. He also focused on more documentary subjects such as daily life in Iran and coal mining and pollution in China. He later covered the Mexican drug war and the Arab uprisings of 2012 in Egypt and Libya. From 2014 to 2017, he also photographed in Syria and Iraq. CNN published his architectural photographs of the destruction of Sinjar.

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Patrick Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Teun Voeten celebrates birthday on October 25 of every year.

Between 2012 and 2018, shocked by the cruelty in Mexico and trying to put 22 years of experience into an academic perspective, Voeten completed a PhD in anthropology at Leiden University, on extreme violence in the Mexican drug war. His thesis was titled “The Mexican Drug Violence. Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty.”