HOOR JE MIJ/ DO YOU HEAR ME
2023- 2024
As the youngest, I was born into a Christian family of 9 children, in a village beneath Rotterdam. While growing up, I noticed that there were a lot of scripted and unscripted rules. After puberty I moved to the city seeking more freedom. There, in this (initially) unknown and new environment, I began to think about who I wanted to become, detached from the world I knew. But at the same time, I occasionally longed for the familiarity of home.
This resulted in a coming-of-age story about 21-year-old Marlies. She grew up in the same neighborhood as me and is trying to find her own way between religion, love, family and the village.
The project was self-published as a photo book as my graduation project, designed by Jord Noordbeek and printed at De Kijm in The Hague.
