Overview · Bastiaan Woudt
Champions
Overview
Champions was made in Zambia in October 2023, in collaboration with Orange Babies. The series portrays a group of young Zambians — advocates, educators, connectors — as the heroes, warriors, kings and queens they already are.
The series
A complete portfolio of the images
On the wall
One framed example per available format
30 x 40 cm
Ed. 10 + 2 AP
45 x 60 cm
Ed. 10 + 2 AP
90 x 120 cm
Ed. 10 + 2 AP
Pricing
All works are produced in strictly limited editions of 10 + 2 artist proofs. Prices are per signed, numbered print. Print-only is the bare print; framed includes museum-grade framing, passe-partout, UV glass and the mounted certificate of authenticity. All prices include 9% Dutch tax.
| Format | Print only | Framed, incl. 9% Dutch tax |
|---|---|---|
| 30 x 40 cm | € 1.750 | € 2.250 |
| 45 x 60 cm | € 3.250 | € 4.000 |
| 90 x 120 cm | € 6.250 | € 7.800 |
| 135 x 180 cm | € 14.650 | € 18.500 |
Installation
In collectors’ spaces
About the series
Champions is a photographic series by Bastiaan Woudt, created in Zambia in October 2023 in collaboration with Orange Babies. The project marks the organisation's 25th anniversary and centres on a group of young Zambians who work within their own communities to break the silence around HIV.
The images do not document crisis. They show agency. Through Woudt's monochrome lens, these young adults become what they are: advocates, educators, connectors. Orange Babies calls them Champions. Woudt photographs them as heroes, warriors, kings and queens.
The Journey
The project grew out of a personal decision. Woudt had wanted to use his work for a charitable cause for some time. When he connected with Orange Babies, the Champions programme was presented to him, and it resonated immediately. Not because of the scale of the HIV crisis, but because of how Orange Babies chose to address it: from within. Through people, not systems.
Orange Babies began nearly 25 years ago at the peak of the HIV epidemic, focused on preventing mother-to-child transmission. Pregnant women received testing, medication, and support through birth and beyond. More than 500,000 children were born healthy through this programme. Many of the mothers, once ostracised by their families, grew into confident, independent women. They wanted to give back. They became Community Mothers, caring for vulnerable children in their neighbourhoods: cooking, helping with homework, ensuring HIV-positive children took their medication.
The assumption had been that knowledge about HIV would pass naturally from generation to generation. It did not. The taboo was too strong. Children who lost parents often never learned the cause. Infections, especially among young people, continued to rise. Orange Babies realised that the model of the Community Mothers, change driven from within by people with lived experience, needed to be replicated among the younger generation. That is how the Champions programme was born: 25 young, determined Zambians trained to enter schools, set up Youth Friendly Corners, and create safe spaces where peers could ask questions about HIV, medication, sexual education, teenage pregnancy, mental health, and domestic violence.
Woudt travelled to Zambia in October 2023 to photograph these Champions and the broader community they serve. The trip spanned roughly a week, moving through schools, compounds, and rural areas. He visited Pa Kachele school, where children aged six to sixteen played football in expansive gardens next to tall maize fields. He photographed at ROC's school in Lusuno, a rural settlement at the edge of a village with its own vast grounds and a Mother Shelter nearby, a place where women stay in the final days before giving birth in a basic local clinic, to avoid walking kilometres in labour. He spent time at the Heal Project, an orphanage where evenings turned into gatherings around campfires with music and dancing children. He accompanied home visits in the compounds, entered local markets, and drove to natural landscapes outside the towns.
Collecting
What you can expect when you acquire a work from Studio Woudt.
Editions
Strictly limited editions, numbered and signed by the artist. Once closed, an edition is never reprinted.
Printing
Archival pigment prints on museum-quality paper, produced with one specialised fine art printing studio. Every print is individually inspected.
Framing
Museum-grade wooden frames with UV-protective glass, acid-free mounting and a passe-partout sized to the work.
Worldwide shipping
Fully insured shipping. Within Europe delivered and installed in person; outside Europe flown in custom fine-art crates.
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