Marian Verkerk is a visual artist working with experimental photographic processes that challenge the stability of the image. Next to these experiemental photographic processes, she is also interested in B&W photography, especially landscapes and architecture.
In a former life she has studied philosophy and for the last 25 years she was Full Professor in Ethics at the University of Groningen. From 2008 -2010 and 2012-2014 she was a student at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. After that she continued to receive coaching from teachers of the academy for several years.
I started the course Diploma in Experimental Photography last september 2025. Being part of a community of like-minded artists is extremely motivating. Both online as well as in Zoom classes, a lot of information and joy is shared. Pablo and Laura are very approchable and enthousiastic.
Highlight Project
Traces of the Ordinary
Combining cyanotype, lumen printing, chemograms, Van Dyke brown, and hybrid analogue–digital approaches, my work investigates how landscapes, portraits, and everyday objects dissolve under the influence of time and chemical change. The practice explores memory as a shifting field of traces rather than fixed representations, creating images that exist between material presence and disappearance.
In the project "Traces of the Ordinary" the superimposition of Van Dyke Brown, cyanotype and inkjet transfers creates smooth and unstable surfaces where the ordinary becomes ephemeral.
In the "What the Sea Remembers" project , the images, created using cyanotype, lumen exposure, and hybrid printing processes, behave like the sea itself: shaped by light, humidity, and time. And finally, in "The Disappearing Self," the portraits slowly dissolve through chemical reactions. Instead of fixing identity, the images show it as something fragile and ever-changing.