045 - Bieke Depoorter
© Bieke Depoorter
Magnum member Bieke Deporter is a 30 year old Belgian photographer. She has a masters degree in photography from the Royal academy of fine art in Ghent and in 2009 won the Magnum expression award for her work in Russia, a project which later became her first book entitled Ou Menya in which she established a unique working practice whereby she stays each night with a different stranger (or strangers) who she has met and photographs them in their home. She then repeated the process in the USA, which became the book I Am About To Call It A Day and has since done the same thing in Egypt, which will be made into a book later this year. She became a magnum nominee in 2012 and was made a full member last year, in 2016.
In episode 045, Bieke discusses, among other things:
Honesty in photography
Following her instincts
Ou Menya project
I Am About To Call It A Day project
The challenges of shooting in Egypt
Lonliness
Magnum photos
“Every day I think, ‘Bieke, what are you doing? Are you really doing it again? Then I do it, I don’t know how sometimes, and then it’s fine… It’s always a struggle. I think it will always be a struggle. That’s what I like, I think, to put myself in a situation…”
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