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Bieke depoorter winner of 2010 s magnum expression award
Bieke Depoorter (1986) is a Belgian photographer. She is a member of Magnum Photos and has published two books of her work.
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Life and work
Depoorter was born in Courtrai, Belgium. She obtained a master's degree in photography in 2009 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent.
Many of her self-initiated projects are about intimate situations in families and in peoples' homes. For her graduation project and her first book, Ou Menya (2011), she made three trips to Russia, photographing people in their homes that she met whilst travelling around. The series won the 2009 Magnum Expression Award. Depoorter made the work for her second book, I am About to Call it a Day (2014) in a similar way whilst hitchhiking and driving around the US. She has also made work in Egypt and Srebrenica.
Depoorter became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2012, an associate member in 2014, and a full member in 2016. She is the fifth Belgian member of the agency, after Carl De Keyzer, Martine Franck, Harry Gruyaert and John Vinck.
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