Teun Voeten

Teun Voeten is a war photographer. Voeten studied philosophy and cultural anthropology in the Netherlands. Since 1990, he covered conflicts in Israel, Rwanda, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Lebanon, Sudan, for publications such as Vanity Fair, National Geographic, and Newsweek,i/>. He was shot by a sniper in Bosnia, nearly executed by drugged up child soldiers in Sierra Leone, kidnapped at gunpoint by Colombian rebels and survived several Taliban ambushes. Voeten lived 5 months with an underground community of crack addicted homeless and wrote the book Tunnel People. In his book How de Body: Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone he describes the violent civil war in that country. In 2012, he published the photo book Narco Estado: Drug Violence in Mexico. Together with film maker Maaike Engels, he made documentaries on the Calais refugee camp and Mexican sicarios. In 2018, he obtained his PhD from Leiden University. His totally rewritten study appears as a Small Wars Journal–El Centro book: Mexican Drug Violence. Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty. Recently Voeten researched drug related crime for the city of Antwerp. His most recent book is The Devil’s Drug: The Global Emergence of Crystal Meth.