Maroesjka Lavigne: Someone, Somewhere, Sometime
For Lavigne, nature is unconquerable, and everywhere: a small figure peers contemplatively over a bridge, allowing the falling snow to envelop his image in white, while a suburban street sleeps trustingly beneath an ominous, rust-colored sky.
— Interview Magazine
This debut monograph from award-winning photographer Maroesjka Lavigne includes four of the artist’s series: Island, Not Seeing is a Flower, Land of Nothingness, and Lost Lands. Each series spans several years in the making, during which she traveled to Argentina, Iceland, Japan, and Namibia, among other locations, observing landscapes and their inhabitants. Lavigne produces stunningly beautiful images that are tenderly attuned to their settings and subjects. As the photographer puts it: “When you take a picture in a beautiful place, you have to realize that nature isn’t the background for your photograph. Rather, you are its prop.”
Limited edition of this book available here
For Lavigne, nature is unconquerable, and everywhere: a small figure peers contemplatively over a bridge, allowing the falling snow to envelop his image in white, while a suburban street sleeps trustingly beneath an ominous, rust-colored sky.
— Interview Magazine
This debut monograph from award-winning photographer Maroesjka Lavigne includes four of the artist’s series: Island, Not Seeing is a Flower, Land of Nothingness, and Lost Lands. Each series spans several years in the making, during which she traveled to Argentina, Iceland, Japan, and Namibia, among other locations, observing landscapes and their inhabitants. Lavigne produces stunningly beautiful images that are tenderly attuned to their settings and subjects. As the photographer puts it: “When you take a picture in a beautiful place, you have to realize that nature isn’t the background for your photograph. Rather, you are its prop.”
Limited edition of this book available here
For Lavigne, nature is unconquerable, and everywhere: a small figure peers contemplatively over a bridge, allowing the falling snow to envelop his image in white, while a suburban street sleeps trustingly beneath an ominous, rust-colored sky.
— Interview Magazine
This debut monograph from award-winning photographer Maroesjka Lavigne includes four of the artist’s series: Island, Not Seeing is a Flower, Land of Nothingness, and Lost Lands. Each series spans several years in the making, during which she traveled to Argentina, Iceland, Japan, and Namibia, among other locations, observing landscapes and their inhabitants. Lavigne produces stunningly beautiful images that are tenderly attuned to their settings and subjects. As the photographer puts it: “When you take a picture in a beautiful place, you have to realize that nature isn’t the background for your photograph. Rather, you are its prop.”
Limited edition of this book available here
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Photography by Maroesjka Lavigne
Text by David CampanyHardcover
10.5 x 12 inches
172 pages / 80 images
ISBN: 9781942185505Co-published with Robert Mann Gallery
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Maroesjka Lavigne (b. 1989, Belgium) gained her Masters in Photography at Ghent University in the summer of 2012 in Belgium. 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. Her latest project ‘Lost Lands’ was recently exhibited in the Robert Mann Gallery in New York. Her latest monograph book ‘Someone, Somewhere, Sometime’ contains her 4 previous projects and is copublished by Radius Books and Robert Mann Gallery
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 with her project Land of Nothingness. She is currently living and working in Ghent, Belgium.