Nathalie Bertrams is a freelance journalist and photographer, reporting mainly from across Africa and Eastern Europe. Her focus areas are global trade, biodiversity, environment and climate change. She publishes in international media including Al Jazeera, The Guardian, BBC, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NRC Handelsblad and Mongabay. She is a 2021 and 2018 National Geographic Explorer and has received multiple reporting grants, including from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Robert Bosch Stiftung and Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Fetisov Journalism Awards for Outstanding Investigative Reporting and in 2015, she was awarded the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize by the European Commission.
Study
1996–02 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (MFA)
1997–98 San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1988–93 Akademie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht, NL (BA)
Grants
2022 IWMF – Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists
Free Press Unlimited – Travel grant
Journalismfund.eu – European Cross-Border Grant
2021 Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten – Reporting grant
National Geographic Explorer – Storytelling grant
Fonds BJP – Reporting grant
2020 IJ4EU – Investigative journalism grant
Fonds BJP – Reporting grant
2019 Robert Bosch Foundation – Reporters in the Field
Earth Journalism Network – Reporting grant
Fonds BJP – Reporting grant
Free Press Unlimited – Travel grant
2018 National Geographic Explorer – Storytelling grant
European Journalism Center – Global Health grant
Free Press Unlimited – Reporting Grant
2017 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – Grant
Stiftung Kunstfonds – Project grant
2013 Joan Wakelin Bursary, Royal Photographic Society, London
Publications (selection)
Deutsche Welle, Living and working on Georgia’s largest garbage dump
Arte (Fernsehreportage), Re: Schneeglöckchen aus Georgien
De Groene Amsterdammer, Witte Bloemen van de Zwarte Zee
Süddeutsche Zeitung, EU-Gelder für das rumänische Donaudelta eingefroren
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Im Sumpf
De Groene Amsterdammer, De Georgische oppositie kampeert voor het parlement
NRC Handelsblad, 1,1 miljard aan EU-geld niet besteed aan Donaudelta
NRC Handelsblad, EU-investering moest de Roemeense natuur beschermen, maar …
Info Sud-Est, Where did the EU’s billion euros for the Danube Delta actually go?
G4Media, Unde a ajuns miliardul de euro de la UE pentru Delta Dunării
OZY, Crime, Corona, Copper and Trouble in Zambia
Mongabay, With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s mega-gardeners go hungry
Sunday Times, The gangsters who made a president
The Guardian – Wildlife forensics: how a giant pangolin named Ghost could save…
Washington Post Magazine – Through the Eyes of Women
Mail & Guardian – The story of SA’s biggest power plant, and its little town
Coal Town (Website) – The quest for South Africa’s first post-Apartheid city
Süddeutsche Zeitung – Phantom in Not
Tagesanzeiger – Das geheime Leben des Pangolin
Mongabay – They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change…
BBC – ‘After the coral ban, I lost everything’
Tages-Anzeiger, Das Leiden der Zierfische
De Groene Amsterdammer – Vissen op Nemo’s
MO*, Hoe aquaria wereldwijd het koraalrif bedreigen
Süddeutsche Zeitung – Ausverkauf am Riff
De Groene Amsterdammer – De nasmaak van de dood
Al Jazeera – On the streets of DR Congo’s Goma, rap gives youth a voice
Tages-Anzeiger – Händewaschen und Fiebermessen
Süddeutsche Zeitung – Das Virus und der Krieg
De Groene Amsterdammer – Oorlog en Ebola vormen in Noord-Kivu een dodelijke mix
Al Jazeera – ‘They believed I was cursed with blindness because God was angry’
Internazionale – Il gusto amaro della vaniglia
Courrier international – Enquête. Plongée dans le trafic de vanille à Madagascar
De Groene Amsterdammer – Vanillekoorts
The Guardian – Madagascan gold: meet the vanilla hustlers
Mail & Guardian – Fear sours the sweet scent of Madagascar’s success
New Internationalist – Revealing Malawi’s untold health and environmental crisis
The Guardian – Illegal logging in Malawi: can clean cooking stoves save its forests?
Süddeutsche Zeitung – Offenes Feuer, zerstörte Gesundheit
Süddeutsche Zeitung – In der Giftküche von Malawi
MO* – Mondiaal Nieuws – Vrouwen roken zich dood, in de keuken
Mail & Guardian – Moz digs garimpeiros out of trouble
Media (Selection)
Arte/ZDF, Al Jazeera, BBC News, Courrier international, De Groene Amsterdammer, Der Standard, Deutsche Welle, Die Welt, Huffington Post, Information DK, Internazionale, Irish Times, La Corriere della Sera, Lettre International, Mail & Guardian, MO*, Mongabay, New Internationalist, NRC Handelsblad, Ozy, PRI/The World, So Good, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sunday Times, Tages-Anzeiger, The Ecologist, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Magazine
Awards
2021 Fetisov Journalism Awards – Shortlist
2020 Renovabis – Research Prize Eastern Europe
2019 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards– Shortlist
2018 Hostwriter Story Prize (1st)
2017 Hostwriter Story Prize (2nd)
2016 Hostwriter Story Prize – Finalist
Martin Lagois Photo Prize – Finalist
Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards – Finalist
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards– Shortlist
2015 European Commission – Lorenzo Natali Media Prize
Reisebank Travel Photography Award – winner
Felix Schoeller Photo Awards – Shortlist & Finalist
Humanity Photo Awards, Beijing
2011 World Photography Awards – Commended Photographer
Clients
African Renewable Energy Alliance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, GAGE, GiZ, Goethe Institute, Greenpeace, Fairtrade International, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Max Havelaar, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Oxfam, Rabobank, SVN Netherlands Development Organisation, Volkswagen AG, Welthungerhilfe, World Future Council
Books
2018 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Toxic Planet
2017 Bertrams/Gazit: Outcast – Refugees in an Israeli detention camp
2016 International Journal of Media and Information Policy (MIPJ): Indigenous Edition
2013 Bertrams: Madagascar. Travel photography
2012 Bertrams/Neuberger: Forests for People – Rwanda’s Prized Forest Policy
Bertrams: Crossing Borders – Vom Atlas zur Goldküste
Bertrams: Crossing Borders – Vom Kap bis Kairo
Exhibitions
2021 Menschenrechte – Kloster Schiffenberg, Gießen, Germany
The Renaissance Of Humility – Sankt Paulus, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Parcours d’Artistes – St-Gilles/ Brussels, Belgium
2019 Ostrale Biennale – Historische Tabakfabrik, Dresden
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards – Tbilisi, Georgia
Migrants: A Journey – Gallery West, London
2018 found a mentalism II, Saint James Cavalier, Malta
2017 What does peace look like? – UNESCO headquarters, Paris
Wasser – Kunstverein Bad Nauheim
Ostrale Biennale – Dresden
[Passant souviens-toi, dit Sœurette] – Médiathèque des Diasporas, Cotonou, Benin
Kontinuum – Betonbox, Düsseldorf,
Kontinuum II – Alfred Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Auf der Flucht – St.Egidien, Nürnberg
Realpraesenz – Betonbox, Düsseldorf
Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards – Whitebox Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Migrants – Gallery on the Corner, London
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards – Tbilisi, Georgia
Klassentreffen – Schloss Reuschenberg, Neuss
Clearing – Alfred Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Lichtung – Betonbox, Düsseldorf
Felix Schoeller Photo Awards – Cultural History Museum, Osnabrück
Bombensicher – Betonbox, Düsseldorf
2014 Kinolog: fremdartig – Schikaneder Cinema, Vienna
Kunstpunkte – Betonbox, Düsseldorf
2013 Ostrale‘013 – Dresden
Endstation Frohe Zukunft – Galerie Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
Reactivation – Betonbox, Düsseldorf
2012 Deus Ex Machina – Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
Kunstpunkte, Betonbox, Düsseldorf
Cliffhanger – Galerie Minken & Palme, Berlin
2011 Ostrale‘011 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
Climate Change in Africa – Heinrich Boell Foundation, Cancún, Mexico
2010 Copart – Cape Town, South Africa
Ostrale‘010 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
Evolution – bauraum, Köln
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