Alice Wielinga is a Dutch visual artist and documentary photographer, known for her innovative storytelling style that combines photography with digital collage and visual art. She was born in 1981 in Eindhoven and currently lives in Amsterdam. She graduated from the St. Joost Academy of Art and Design in Breda and further honed her skills at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Her acclaimed project North Korea: A Life Between Propaganda and Reality (2013–2015) juxtaposes state propaganda with everyday life, offering a nuanced perspective on the country. This work earned her the Photo Folio Review Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2014 and first prize in the Fine Art category at the Moscow International Foto Awards in 2015.
In Shadows of Pakistan (2015), Wielinga investigated the lives of Afghan and internally displaced refugees in and around Islamabad, inspired by the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Muhammed Muheisen.
Since 2017, she has been collaborating with six North Korean artists on The Artist Perspective, a cross-cultural project that has been presented at events such as TEDx Amsterdam, at National Geographic in Washington DC, and at Xposure in the United Arab Emirates.
Wielinga's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, and the Lumière Brothers Center of Photography in Moscow.
