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With my photography,
I aim to create space
for understanding
and connection.
I’m Marijke Stroucken (1962), an independant Dutch documentary photographer, working on long-term projects that explore social, political and contemporary affairs.
I take on issues that shape the way we live, the way we build society and the way we interact with nature: issues that define the time we live in. As a committed feminist, I’m especially drawn to themes that affect women and minorities.
I believe in the power of still images to make people think, and in the positive impact that photojournalists and documentary photographers have on the world.
With my work comes a great sense of responsibility. The access people give to their lives is precious as wel as essential for this work to happen. Their openness carries the duty to tell the truth and to respect the stories they share.
In my projects, I combine a documentary approach with a quiet, observant gaze and a strong commitment to my subjects. My work balances between distance and closeness, observing with empathy but without judgement. The result is a visual language that leaves space for the complexity of the issues they adress and the integrity of my subjects.
With my photography, I aim to create space for understanding and connection — an invitation to look closer, to reflect, to engage in diaglogue and see from a different perspective.
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