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Marsel van Oosten

Dutch photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6773277 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marsel van Oosten is a Dutch photographer specialising in nature and wildlife photography. He has been overall winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Travel Photographer of the Year competitions.

Publications

Wild Romance: Africa's most romantic safari lodges. Cape Town: Struik Lifestyle, 2009. By van Oosten and Daniëlla Sibbing. ISBN 9781770077263.

Mother: A Tribute to Mother Earth. Kempen, Germany: teNeues, 2021. ISBN 978-3961713349.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Marsel van Oosten” as dutch photographer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marsel, Oosten and Dutch.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marsel, Oosten and Dutch providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Marsel van Oosten”, the useful work is to connect “dutch photographer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6773277. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marsel van Oosten” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.