Niels Ackermann was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1987. He lives and works between Geneva and Kiev, Ukraine. He began working for the Swiss and international press in 2007, while studying Political Science at the University of Geneva. L’Ange Blanc, his reportage on post-Chernobyl youth, brought him many awards, including the Prix Rémi Ochlik-Ville de Perpignan and the Swiss Press Photo Award. Looking For Lenin, the project he undertook with Sebastien Gobert, searching for the fallen soviet idol in Ukraine, was first exhibited in Arles and is now touring in countries such as the UK, Russia, Switzerland and Lebanon. His work has been displayed at festivals and exhibitions in China, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
