Lydie Nesvadba is a French documentary photographer based in Brussels, Belgium, dividing her time between commission work and personal projects. Her unwavering focus persists across all sectors in which she is active (portrait, reportage, editorial) : to place the human subject at the core of every image.

Experience

2025
Ongoing personal photo project on engaged youth
Press collaborations with Bolero and Financial Time
Collabortions with the Belgian independent media Bruxelles Devie
Portrait commissions for CNP, Kick Cancer, BCG, Edge Brokers and Rothschild & Co
Lifestyle photo series for Nebor

2024–2023
Ongoing personal photo project on the Brussels electronic music scene (in progress)
Exibition “Concordances, where boundaries fade and new connections emerge” at Parenthèse, Venasque (84) France
Press collaboration with T Magazine and L’Officiel

2022
Series of 30 portraits of designers selected by WBDM to represent Belgium at the Milan Design Fair
Press collaborations with T Magazine, L’Officiel Belgium, and Médor
Fashion series for brands Bellerose, Audrey Ickx, Ireene, and Aiko
Lifestyle photo series for Maison Dandoy and Neybor
Official portraits for the cultural and artistic sectors

2020–2021
Co-direction of the short film “SOMOS – These Youths Breaking Gender Norms”
In collaboration with Laura Krsmanovich / Exhibition at 254Forest in Brussels / Exhibition at the Wallonie-Bruxelles Art Center in Paris

Awards

• Best LGBT Film: Roma Short Film Festival

• Best Short Documentary: Argenteuil International Film Festival

• Best Human Rights Film: New Wave Short Film Festival Munich

• Award of Excellence: Canada Shorts Film Festival

• Best LGBT Short Film: Short Film Festival Berlin

• Honorable Mention: Tokyo International Short Film Festival
  Official Selections: Paris Art & Movie Art, We Film Festival, Beyond the Curve International Film Festival (Paris), Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, QueerBee LGBTQIA Film (London), Toronto International 

  Nollywood Film Festival, Queer Mais Trash International Film Festival, QueerBee Filmmakers

2020–2021
“Backstage” reportages on RTBF film sets, Brussels / Restart exhibition

2019
“Childhood in Madagascar” reportage in support of the NGO “Eau de Coco”
Exhibition at Continents Insolites, Brussels

2018–2019
Series of 254 portraits of Brussels residents / Book: “You Should Have Been In This Book – 254 Brussels Portraits”

2016–2017
Awareness campaigns “Kick Cancer” to fight childhood cancer

2016
Reportage on the “Hijras” in Dhaka, Bangladesh, published in Mo Magazine
Exhibition at Château de Deulin in Hotton

2012
Portrait series for CECOP (European Cooperatives) / Exhibition at the European Parliament
Reportage in Mumbai and Tamil Nadu for the NGO Barefoot Acupuncturists

2010–2022
On-set photographer for cinema productions

2010
Portrait series “Princesses of the Slums”, Mumbai, India

2010–2020
Portrait and reportage photographer for Victoire Magazine, Le Vif, Libre Essentielle Focus, De Morgen, Médor

2009–2023
Collaborations with Base Design agency: portraits and lifestyle projects for various clients

2005–2008
Portrait photographer at BOZAR, Center of Fine Arts, Brussels

2004
Reportage “Tokyo Loneliness”, Japan

2000–2003
Collaborations with Infini Théâtre

1999
Reportage “Yangtze River”, along the Three Gorges Valley, China
Exhibition at Galerie Usage Externe, Brussels / Screening at La Maison de la Chine, Paris

1998–1999
Reportage “Streets of Calcutta”, India

1998
Reportage on the inhabited cemetery of Cairo, Egypt

1997
Graduate in photography from ENSAV La Cambre
Reportage in Eritrea and Ethiopia / Exhibition at the Museum of Photography, Charleroi

1996–1998
Reportages on Roma communities in France, Spain, Romania, and India
Exhibitions: Théâtre National de Bruxelles (1998), Galerie Samedi Dimanche in Brussels (1999), Espace Jacques Franck in Brussels (2015)

1995 Reportage on the end of the Siege in Bosnia / Dumeunier Prize / Exhibition at Grand Hornu