Jacquie Maria Wessels
Kerkstraat 301,1017 GZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands
+31(0)654374175
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www.jacquiemariawessels.nl
Jacquie Maria Wessels lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; she studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, both in Amsterdam. Wessels has developed into an artist who is active in the field of autonomous and documentary photography and who likes to explore a topic for a longer period of time. Her subjects often serve as a framework for investigating the various social conditions and the environment of people.
Wessels work is exhibited worldwide and is in the collection of various institutional and private collections a.o. the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), Huis Marseille – Museum of Photography Amsterdam (NL) and the Surinaams Museum in Paramaribo (SR).
Recently, Wessels’ series 'Cityscapes + Birdmen' was on show in the Photo Route Bijlmer, an outdoor exhibition with 50 large format photographs in Amsterdam and in a solo show at the Surinaams Museum in Paramaribo, Suriname. The series 'Birdmen' is published in the Photo Book ‘Cityscapes + Birdmen’ by Voetnoot Publishers in Antwerp Belgium, and internationally by Idea Books. The book won two final awards in the international book awards (USA) in 2011.
In a tradition from Suriname (and now popular in The Netherlands), men gather early each Sunday morning to compete in a friendly way — to see who has the sweetest singing bird. 15 portraits of men and their birds.
Voetnoot, October 10, 2010