Hi, my name is Marijke.
I am from The Hague in the Netherlands and I love to take pictures.
I am interested in people. And in their stories. So that is what I do. Tell people’s stories.
I’ve always been a bit of an outsider. In the small village where I grew up, I was an “import”. I was’nt born there and didn’t speak the dialect. I went to college instead of domestic school, like all the other kids. In my first job, I was the only woman – and the youngest. I have never felt the need to adjust to what is desirable. At the same time I have learned not to stand out too much. Because that gave me the space to do what I wanted. To observe en to learn.
In my projects, I find chemistry with strangers and I enjoy listening to their stories. I often photograph loners and people who, voluntary or not, live in isolation. The main theme of my work is the impact of social, societal and demographic developments on people’s lives. My images are somewhat contemplative, silent and unadorned, but always involved. They show the world from my perspective – the perspective of an outsider.
Biography
2021 Publication Miriam in Hollandse Beelden
2020 Publication Waiting for a miracle in Hollandse Beelden
2020 Exhibition Rotterdam Photo
2020 Solo exhibition Where they belong at the Pancratiuschurch in Emmen
2019 Exhibition Waiting for a Miracle in Museum Hilversum
2019 Exhibition Where they Belong in the Willem Twee kunstruimte in Den Bosch
2019 Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival
2019 Publication Waiting for a Miracle in NRC Handelsblad and in Het Wiel
2019 Louis Zaal Masterclass (Zilveren Camera and Beeldunie)
2019 Dream Big, children in the slums of Kolkata (for Seed Netherlands)
2018 Exhibition Rotterdam Photo 2018
2018 VII photo agency – Story Telling and Human Rights by Ed Kashi
2017 Exhibition Homeland in gallery Sehnsucht in Rotterdam
2017 Masterclass with Rahi Rezvani
2017 Expert program Photo Academy Amsterdam – ‘Photobook’
2017 Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival
2017 Exhibition Rotterdam Photo 2017
2017 Exhibition New Dutch Talent – 5&33 Amsterdam
2016 Start working for Parool Newspaper
2016 Selected for New Dutch Photography Talent 2017
2016 Publication / interview PF
2016 Publication all young people left in Parool
2016 Publication to be framed in Parool
2016 Exhibition Unframed – Roest Amsterdam
2016 Photo Academy Amsterdam
2016 Exhibition Point of street view with the ‘Perron-010’ collective at Rotterdam Photo 2016
2015 Winner (by jury) NRC competition theme “man”
2015 Publication series F.A.S.T. in NRC Handelsblad
2014 Exhibition New York Photo Festival, finalist student category
2014 Exhibition Ian Royce Gallery – Cape Town Zuid Afrika
1996 SIOO – Change management
1991 Washington University St. Louis / TIAS – Master of Information Management (cum laude)
1989 Hogeschool Eindhoven – Business Management
Marijke Stroucken | marijke@marijkestroucken.nl | +31 6 22401008