Mads Nissen

Mads Nissen (born November 17, 1979 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Danish documentary photographer and winner of the 2015 World Press Photo of the Year.

Nissen completed his studies at the Danish School of Journalism in Copenhagen.

From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a staff photographer for the Danish newspaper Politiken, and subsequently as a freelance photojournalist for Newsweek, Time, Der Spiegel, Stern and the The Sunday Times. He has documented the food crisis in Niger, overpopulation in the Philippines, and the Amazon rainforest.

• Amazonas. Gyldendal, 2013. ISBN 978-8-7021361-0-4.

• A New Documentary. The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9896053-0-4.

• 2006: Third Prize (with two others), Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards.
• 2007: Third Prize, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards.
• 2007: Danish Press Photo of the Year.
• 2010: Danish Press Photo of the Year.
• 2011: World Press Photo Award, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, for a Libyan fighter standing on a burning tank.
• 2011: Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Photography Grant.
• 2015: World Press Photo of the Year for a photograph of two gay men in St Petersburg, Russia.

• 2006: Forgotten crisis, Médecins du Monde, Visa pour l’image, France.
• 2007+2009: Luis Valtueña Humanitarian Photography, Several European countries.
• 2008+2010+2012+2014: Lumix Photo Festival, Hannover, Germany.
• 2009: Chobi Mela V, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• 2009: Noorderlicht Photography Festival, The Netherlands.
• 2010+2011+2012+2013+2014: Personal Projects, Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 2011+2012: Visa pour l’image, France.
• 2012: Ashes and Gold, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany.
• 2012: Nordox, Shanghai, China.
• 2013: Festival dela Fotografia Etica, Lodi, Italy.
• 2014: Freelens Gallery, AMAZONAS solo, Hamburg.