Biography
David Verberckt was born in 1971 in Ostend, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is currently based in Budapest, Hungary.
During 1990-1997 years David has studied photography at Le 75 (L’Ecole Supérieure des Arts de l’Image) in Brussels, and has afterwards graduated in Development and Humanitarian Aid at L’Institut Bioforce in Lyon, France.
After exhibiting his first documentary reportages in the early nineties, he has turned to the aid agencies and has spent twenty years working worldwide in humanitarian emergency and development with Médecins Sans Frontières and later the European Union.
In early 2013, David left the ordinary offices to devote his professional career fully to photography. He has since been working on several projects and exhibited his work at numerous festivals and programmes worldwide, mainly relating to social documentary issues.
Since 2018 — member of the Noga Creative Union.
Awards & Honors
2021 — Honorable Mention of the 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography, Social Documentary Network/SDN.
2017 — Finalist of the Youmanity 2017 photography award, The Everyday Heroine.
2017 — Finalist of the Syngenta Photography Awards 2016-2017.
Solo exhibitions
2024 — Burma, 3 years of Resistance, KL& Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2023 — The Forgotten Refugees of the Sahara, Hotel Benczur, Budapest, Hungary.
2023 — Changing Realities, Open Air Exhibition in rural area about climate change, Pordašinci, Slovenia.
2023 — Burmese Minorities, an Endless Oppression, The Kuala Lumpur And Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2019 — Rohingya, Hosted by the Belgian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, No Black Tie Jazz Bar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2018 — Rohingya, Refugee Awareness Week, Viewpoint Gallery, University of California, Irvine, USA.
2018 — Rohingya, Mediators Beyond Borders International Conference, Peace Palace, Hague, Netherlands.
2017 — Rohingya, Modul Memorije 2017, Gallery Java, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2017 — Rohingya, National Theatre Mostar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2017 — Frozen Conflicts, Mediators Beyond Borders International Conference, Peace Palace, Hague, Netherlands.
2017 — Palestinian Chronicles, Mediators Beyond Borders International Conference, Peace Palace, Hague, Netherlands.
2016 — Frozen Conflicts, Verzio, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Arthouse Toldi Mozi, Budapest, Hungary.
2015 — Frozen Conflicts, Bivak Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015 — Frozen Conflicts, BlackBox Art Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2015 — Palestinian Chronicles, Festival Modul Memorije, Gazi Husrev-begove medrese, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2015 — Temporary Permanence, Bivak Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015 — Temporary Permanence, Festival Modul Memorije, Sarajevo War Theatre, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2015 — Temporary Permanence, Brody studios, Budapest, Hungary.
Group exhibitions
2021 — Noga 15 years old, VI International festival of photography 'Fotokrok' named Sigismund Yurkovsky, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.
2018 — Odessa Photo Days 2018, Odesa Literature Museum, Off Limits, series: Rohingya, Odessa, Ukraine.
2018 — Bethlehem Beyond the Wall, Museum of the Palestinian People, Wshington D.C., USA.
2017 — European Month of Photography Bratislava, Slovakia.
2017 — Youmanity 2017 photography award, The Everyday Heroine, London, UK.
2017 — Syngenta Photography Awards, Grow-Conserve, Somerset House, London, UK.
2016 — Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2016 — Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
2016 — Indian Photo Festival — Hyderabad, India.
2016 — Visa pour l’Image 2016, International Photojournalism Festival, Perpignan, France.
2016 — Refugee crisis in Europe, Jordan and Lebanon, Photo presentation at Refugee Festival at Publika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2016 — 3. Documentary Photograph Days, Istanbul, Turkey.
2016 — Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2016 — ONWARD Compé Exhibition, Philadelphia, USA.