ABOUT
For the Sinking Cities project Boll teams up with journalist/documentary maker Stephanie Bakker. They join forces to conduct visually and substantively strong research on land subsidence and climate change in cities worldwide. Sinking Cities is a collaborative project involving cooperation with local communities, scientists, data experts, designers and media. Their project “the Dyke,” an investigative storytelling project on the Afsluitdijk renovations and it’s social impact was honored with a Zilveren Camera award.
With a passion for capturing the world’s most pressing issues through the lens, Boll is dedicated to telling compelling visual stories that stimulate awareness and foster public participation. Combining documentary photography with new technologies and forms of communication, her stories are shown from the perspective of ordinary people. Her work is published in international media; solo exhibitions in the Netherlands, Jakarta and Dubai and collected by private collectors and acquired by the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, cementing her work’s importance and impact in the realm of environmental and social photography.
Boll has the ability to capture the human side of social injustice, such as in her project ‘Sour Grapes’ about the working conditions of seasonal workers in the South African wine industry. She does this with powerful and inspiring photos. She shows how economic and environmental aspects are inextricably linked.
Since 2016 Boll is a permanent judge in tv program ‘Het Perfecte Plaatje’ (The Perfect Picture) a programme of Dutch RTL 4 about photography. Committed to making the world a better place through visual storytelling, Cynthia Boll continues to inspire and challenge audiences worldwide with her compelling and socially relevant photographic narratives. In 2024 she won the Canon Female Photojournalist Grant.
2013 Travelling exhibition ’29 Minutes’ the Netherlands
2016 Exhibition ‘The People Behind the Seawall’ Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia
2018 Exhibition ‘The People Behind the Seawall’ Watersnood museum, the Netherlands
2018 Book Banjir! Banjir!
2019 Exhibition ‘Sinking Cities, Jakarta’ Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia
2023 Exhibition ‘Sinking Cities, Gouda’ Watersnood museum, the Netherlands
2023 Short documentary ‘Tess & Tinus’
2024 Exhibition ‘Overview Cynthia Boll’ Museum Hilversum
