Marrie Bot (born June 24, 1946) is a Dutch photographer and graphic designer.

Biography

Born in

Bergambacht Bergambacht () is a village and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Since 2015 it has been a part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard. The former municipality covered an area of of which was wate ...

, Bot started her career in 1963 as a graphic designer. She received some formal art education at the Vrije Academie in The Hague in the 1973/74 academic year. Since 1976 she increasingly started focussing on photography, and settled as an independent artist in Rotterdam. She experimented with several forms of photography from

portrait photography Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective Photographic lighting, lighting, Painted photography backdrops, backdrops, and poses. A portr ...

street photography Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...

documentary photography Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...

, and

nude photography Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography is undertaken for a variety of purposes, including educational uses, commercial applic ...

photojournalism Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

. In her work Bot has often chosen those socio-political themes which are a taboo. She researched and studied her subjects at length before she presented her work. Subjects she pictured have been massive

pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, aft ...

s in Europe in 1984,

mentally handicapped Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation,Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signific ...

in 1988, and multicultural

funeral A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect th ...

and

mourning Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief, occurring as a result of someone's death, specifically someone who was loved although loss from death is not exclusively ...

rituals in the Netherlands in 1998.Marrie Bot. ''Geliefden. Timeless love.'' Rotterdam: Braam, S. (2005).
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2015) Bot was awarded the Maria Austria Photography Prize in 1989 for her photobook 'Bezwaard bestaan' on

mentally handicapped people ''Mentally'' is a 2017 Nigerian film written, produced and directed by James Abinibi. The movie stars Kunle Idowu, Toyin Abraham, Woli Arole and Adekunle Gold Synopsis The movie revolves around a young man who went to Lagos, a place where he ...

and the

Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Alfred Heineken, ...

in 1990 for her complete oeuvre.

Selected publications

* Marrie Bot, ''Miserere: de grote boetebedevaarten in Europa,'' 1984 * Marrie Bot, ''Miserere: The great pilgrimages of penance in Europe.'' Rotterdam: Marrie Bot, 1985. . An English-language version of the Dutch-language book. * Marrie Bot, ''Bezwaard bestaan : foto's en verhalen over verstandelijk gehandicapten.'' 1988. . * Marrie Bot, ''Fotoboek over bedevaartgangers in plaatsen in o.a. Spanje, Polen en Ierland.'' 1989. * Marrie Bot, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1990), ''Marrie Bot, photographer.'' * Marrie Bot, ''Een laatste groet: uitvaart- en rouwrituelen in multicultureel Nederland,'' M. Bot. 1998.

References

External links

Marrie Bot portfolio

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Biography

See also

Selected publications

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