Marian Verkerk is a visual artist working with experimental photographic processes that question the stability of the image. In addition to these experimental photographic processes, she is also interested in black-and-white photography, particularly landscapes and architecture.
In a previous life, she studied philosophy and for the past 25 years was Professor of Ethics at the University of Groningen. Between 2008 and 2010, and from 2012 to 2014, she studied at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. Afterwards, she continued to receive guidance and mentoring from teachers at the academy for several years.
I started the Diploma in Experimental Photography course last September 2025. Being part of a community of artists with similar interests is extremely motivating. Both in the online space and during the Zoom classes, there is a great deal of information and joy being shared. Pablo and Laura are very approachable and enthusiastic.
Highlight Project
Traces of the Ordinary
Combining cyanotype, lumen printing, chemigrams, 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 as fixed representations, creating images that exist between material presence and disappearance.
In the project "Traces of the Ordinary", the layering of Van Dyke Brown, cyanotype and inkjet transfers creates soft, unstable surfaces where the ordinary becomes ephemeral.
In the project "What the Sea Remembers", the images, created through cyanotype, lumen exposure and hybrid printing processes, behave like the sea itself: shaped by light, moisture and time. Finally, in "The disappearin self", the portraits slowly dissolve through chemical reactions. Rather than fixing identity, the images reveal it as something fragile and constantly changing.
