It was an honour to be in Madrid, Spain for this year’s Global Cultural Relations Programme by the Cultural Relations Platform . The programme brings together artists, cultural professionals, and for the first time also those working on climate, with a specific aim of encouraging mutual learning, exchange, and building relationships. This year, the 40 professionals from around the world...

It was great to be back in Bratislava for the launch of the Visualising Climate Crisis exhibition, a culmination of a five-month mentorship by NOOR, Kadir van Lohuizen, and Esther Horvath.  Through the programme and exhibition, 11 selected photographers from Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary and Poland bring forward various aspects of the climate crisis in Central Europe. I had the pleasure...

I am pleased to be this month's Image-Maker in Residence at The Sociological Review. Through this showcase of creative work by practitioners from diverse backgrounds and disciplines that puts visual sociology in the spotlight, I am sharing two parallel bodies of work - Temporary Views and Alentejo - that narrate multiple experiences and relations between humans and natural environments in...

I am thrilled to be one of the 12 visual storytellers taking part in the  NOOR Visualising Climate Crisis Workshop . I am looking forward to working with Kadir van Lohuizen and Esther Horvath in the coming months. Many thanks to Slovak Press Photo for hosting us in Bratislava!

I am honoured to be one of the six finalists of AIS Open 2022 - Women Behind the Lens, with the theme Migration - and what it means to have or not have freedom of movement in today's world, with my ongoing project about agricultural workers in Portugal's Alentejo region. All finalists are currently exhibited at BETA X in Leicester, the United Kingdom, curated by Sebah...

I am excited to be one of the 16 photographers selected for the 2021 edition of Face à la mer in Tangier, Morocco. This unique event will take place on November 24-27, bringing together participants for a variety of workshops and roundtables. FALM – Rencontres Photo de Tanger

It was a privilege to be one of the 100 participants selected for the 34th edition of the Eddie Adams Workshop. I am grateful for the opportunity to be inspired by - and learn from - so many committed and inspiring storytellers from around the globe, and to be able to join the EAW family. Thanks to Team Green team leader David Guttenfelder, editor Corinne Perkins, producer Scott McIntyre, tech...

Portugal's Alentejo region is one of the main areas undergoing rapid agricultural intensification. In order to meet the growing need and the market’s low prices, the region is increasingly relying on undocumented migrant labour. The cheap agricultural produce in our supermarkets is an outcome of precarious working and living conditions - but also of individual stories and aspirations....

I am excited to share the outcome of my most recent project: a music video for Yamen Martini 's latest single Giving , directed, shot and edited by me. Yamen Martini is a Belgium-based trumpet player and composer whose versatile and improvisation-rich style has shined on stages across the Middle East and Europe. Shot along the Belgian Coast and released in February 2021, Giving tells a...

The Olive Grove, my work about the area formerly adjacent to the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos is part of this year’s edition of the  [fjúžn] festival magazine. Following the tragic fire in September, the situation on the island is deterioriating even further. The magazine is available online (in Slovak): FJÚŽN Magazín 15. roāníka festivalu...

It’s as if time has been suspended for the past months. Our priorities changed. Streets emptied. Our conversations changed. The fragility of the systems we put in place surfaced. I was fortunate to experience this time by the Belgian coast. This period has allowed us to spend time surrounded by nature, which has been an ultimate refuge in a reality where the daily program shrunk to the...

My piece about Svalbard in the latest issue of GEO Slovakia.  I worked on both photos and text about this desolate archipelago located halfway between Norway mainland and the North Pole. Here, summers are endless and the sun doesn’t set for months. Polar bears rule - and time and distance have an entirely different meaning. But here, changes are happening fast, too: temperatures...

In light of these surreal circumstances, I am releasing a set of selected artist prints that serve as a (hopeful) reminder of the times when summers were different. The selection includes pieces from Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia or Svalbard and Jan Mayen, among others. 10% from each purchase will be donated to Home for All, a non-profit organisation making a real difference on Lesvos, Greece...

Thrilled to share news about the release of The New Traditional, a book co-produced by gestalten and BESIDE. This beautiful publication features over 300 photographs - including mine - about stories of heritage, craftsmanship and local identity⁠, published on 272 pages. To find out more or order a copy in the EU or USA, check  www.gestalten.com/products/new-traditional .

Excited to be part of this photographic conversation in times of isolation and social distancing with Nelli Serzanowa, a photographer based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Follow along at stayathome.photography: stayathome.photography/conversations/diana-takacsova-nelli-serzanowa .