Nick Hannes was born in Antwerp in 1974. Based in Ranst, Belgium, he graduated from the Royal Acadehis of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 1997 and for the next eight years worked as a photojournalist before quitting press assignments in 2006 to fully concentrate on his own documentary projects, most of which have a strong political and social component.

His first trip was a year-long journey by bus and train through the former Soviet Union, which resulted in his first book. Red Journey (Lannoo Publishers, 2009). The book deals with the transitional phase in post-communist society and laid the foundation of Nick’s photographic approach in which irony, ambiguity and visual metaphors play prominent roles.

In 2010 Nick started