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Maroesjka Lavigne

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    About Maroesjka Lavigne

    Maroesjka Lavigne (b.1989, Belgium) gained her Masters in Photography at Ghent University in the summer of 2012. Her work has been shown internationally at the Foam Talent exhibition in Amsterdam, The Robert Mann Gallery in New York, Galerie Hug in Paris and Museum Saint Guislain in Gent, Belgium, among others. She self-published a book called ‘ísland’ in 2012 that sold out. In 2014 she published a postcard version of this book. In 2015 she made a commissioned work ‘Not seeing is a Flower’ in collaboration with the Flanders centre in Osaka. This was published in the catalog called Facing Japan. Her latest project 'Land of Nothingness' is made in Namibia and exhibited in the Robert Mann Gallery in New York.

    She was selected for the Talent Call at Fotomuseum Amsterdam (FOAM) Netherlands 2012 and was the winner of the Emerging Talent competition of Lensculture in 2014 with the series ‘You are More than beautiful‘. In 2015 she won the Harry Penningsprijs in Eindhoven,Netherlands and in 2016 she won 1st place in the Landscape Category at the Sony World Photography Awards. She is currently living and working in Ghent, Belgium.

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    • Not Seeing Is a Flower
      Maroesjka Lavigne
       “Whatever you think, think the opposite” is an expression that is often heard in Japan—this series looks at the country’s modern beauty while exploring its lasting influence on Western art.
    • Land of Nothingness
      Maroesjka Lavigne
      In one of the least densely populated places on earth, the delicately colored landscape stretches for miles; the slow passage of time is marked by the hypnotic rise and fall of the native animals’ unhurried gait…
    • You Are More Than Beautiful
      Maroesjka Lavigne
      In Seoul, the social pressure to look beautiful is overwhelming—a good nose job can mean a good-paying job. These documentary photos explore this current trend among the youth culture of Korea.
    • Ísland
      Maroesjka Lavigne
      Maroesjka Lavigne was fascinated by the light in Iceland — brilliant, vivid colors during the summertime when the sun rarely sets, contrasted with the dusky blue that hangs like a veil over the country in the dark monochromatic wintertime. Her poetic visual essay is the grand prize winner in the LensCulture Student Photography Awards 2013.
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