Your name
Marie Dreezen
Place of birth
Mortsel, Belgium
Place where you live now
Antwerp, Belgium
3 words to describe you
Perceptive, curious, reserved
Why do you take pictures?
I use photography to translate the way I see the world around me.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Mainly from the people and places around me. I also often turn to other forms of art to find inspiration like painting, printmaking/illustration, architecture, film and literature. At the moment I'm really intrigued by the paintings of Grant Wood and last year I discovered Gustave Doré's body of work.
Who are your influences?
This changes quite often but photographers like Harry Gruyaert, Geert Goiris and Gregory Halpern have been a constant since I first started photographing.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
Whatever I feel drawn to. The stories I want to tell usually come naturally while making new work.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I want people looking at my work to discover a new world, to have their imagination and curiosity triggered.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
I like to turn back to and rediscover good photobooks so I would say a well made and put together photobook like Robin De Puy's If This Is True I'll Never Have To Leave Home Again, the first time I truly felt a connection with a body of work.
Is there anything you want to add?
Stay curious!
