Marie is a Belgian freelance journalist. She is a member of Women Photograph and is represented by the Hans Lucas Agency. She is based in Istanbul since 2016 and holds a permanent Turkish press card in addition to a Belgian Press card. She has pursued a training security for journalists working in dangerous zones at Bayeux organized by France Media Monde in 2019. She graduated from the university IHECS, where she studied a master in photojournalism.
She believes in the capacity of a camera to facilitate contacts between people and to testify unheard stories. Marie mainly documents the fight for women rights. Through her reports, she focuses on resilience, struggles for justice and migration. Above all, her aim is to highlight change makers.
She won the jury prize and public prize of the Mentor Award in 2016 for her work « Téhéran : les visages de l’indépendance » at the festival Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan. In 2018, she has been selected to participate to the Nikon-Noor Academy and she won the Vocatio Grant. Her work has been published in the Courrier International, Libération, Le Figaro Magazine, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Stern, Vice, La Croix, 6 Mois, Le Vif, Le Soir, L’Orient-Le Jour, among others.
To know more about her work, you can listen to these two podcasts (in French) :
- L'émission Regards du 10 janvier 2023 sur Euradio
- L'épisode 03 de Blue Hour diffusé le 14 avril 2021
Video reports
- Documentary "Liberté d'informer" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, November 13 2022 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/liberte-dinformer/
- Documentary "Preuves d'amour" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, December 5 2021 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/preuves-damour/
- Documentary "Réparer la justice" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, January 22 2023 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/restaurer-la-justice/
- Documentary "Les morts de la rue" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, January 29 2023 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/les-morts-de-la-rue/
- Documentary "Un duo, deux générations" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, February 13 2022 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/un-duo-deux-generations/
- Documentary "Dégenre ta cour" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, October 24 2021 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/degenre-ta-cour/
- Documentary "Occupez le vide" broadcasted on La Trois - RTBF, November 7 2021 : https://tdm-asbl.be/productions/occupez-le-vide/
Radio reports
- "Les réfugiés syriens en Turquie face à la montée de la xénophobie" broadcasted on France Culture, June 3 2022 : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/grand-reportage/grand-reportage-du-vendredi-19-aout-2022-6586578
- "Les Syriens au coeur des tensions en Turquie" broadcasted on Transversales - La première, October 31 2022 : https://www.rtbf.be/article/turquie-une-opposition-de-plus-en-plus-marquee-envers-les-refugies-syriens-qui-ne-comptent-pas-quitter-le-pays-11094520
- "En Turquie les femmes manifestent contre le retrait de la Convention d'Istanbul" broadcasted on Deutsche Welle (start at 7min10), June 29 2021 : https://www.dw.com/fr/allemagne-politique-etrangere-turquie-femmes/av-58099490
Exhibitions and prizes
- Exhibition « Transitions » at the French Institute, Istanbul, 2021
- Exhibition « Un regard sur les migrations » at Point Culture, Brussels, 2020
- Exhibition « Un regard sur les migrations » at Point Culture, Brussels, 2020
- Exhibition « La Turquie sous Erdogan » at l’Expo 60/60, Brussels, 2019
- Exhibition « Let’s Art Iran » at Le Senghor, Brussels, 2019
- Exhibition « Téhéran : les visages de l’indépendance » at Le Festival de la Solidarité Internationale for the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Brussels, 2019
- Winner of the Vocatio Grant, Belgium, 2018
- Nominated for the 6x6 Global Talent Program, World Press Photo, Holland, 2018
- Coup de coeur de l’ANI, Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, France, 2017
- Winner of the jury prize and public prize of the Mentor Award, Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, France, 2016
- Winner of the Sophie Soudant RTBF grant, Belgium, 2015