Cream Cake and Paper Chains

• Photographer
  Ilvy Njiokiktjien Ilvy Njiokiktjien is an independent photographer and multimedia journalist based in the Netherlands. She has worked in many parts of the world, with a focus on Africa. As a news and documentary photographer, she covers current affairs and contemporary social issues. Her work has appeared in NRC Handelsblad, Der Spiegel, Telegraph Magazine, The New York Times, and l’Espresso, among others, and was exhibited at Visa pour l’Image in 2012. Accolades include a Canon AFJ Award, a World Press Photo Multimedia Award, and first prize in POYi’s Issue Reporting Multimedia Story., Netherlands
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  Images by Ilvy

Cream cakes and paper chains, The Netherlands in a hundred birthdays is a series of 100
images picturing birthday celebrations in the Netherlands. The series shows the culture of
celebrating in this tiny country, with so many different kind of people. The series ranges
from age 1 to 100, picturing people from the 12 different provinces, rich, poor, rural
areas, cities, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, from a birthday in prison, to a birthday of a
millionaire spending 100.000 euro's on her birthday. I have pictured people celebrating in
bars, at home, children's parties, birthdays at the office and some typical Dutch
settings, like a birthday in a windmill or in traditional Dutch clothing.

Awards In 2012 Njiokiktjien won 2 awards at World Press Photo. With that same story she won an Award of Excellence in the Feature category of POYI. The multimedia 'Afrikaner Blood' won first place at POYI in the Issue Reporting Multimedia section. Njiokiktjien has been selected to PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers. She also attended the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.