Police forcefully arrest an anti-monarchy protester in Kathmandu, Nepal on 29 April, 2004. Weeks of clashes between police and protesters calling on the king to reinstate democracy lead to thousands of arrests and hundreds injured.

© Tomas van Houtryve/drr.net

Tomas is a Paris-based photographer. He has reported from dozens of countries and received numerous international awards for his coverage of global contemporary issues. He initiated his career in 1999 as an Associated Press photographer in Latin America.

Tomas left the AP in 2003 to pursue stories that go beyond headline news coverage. Whether photographing communist guerrillas in the Himalayas or social unrest in France, he chooses themes that examine the paradoxes of our times.

His work regularly appears in leading international publications including TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, The Independent on Sunday, Foreign Policy, Le Monde and Le Figaro Magazine. He speaks English, French and Spanish.

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