Marijke De Schepper is a Belgian born photographer and film maker based in Amsterdam. Her film productions include many informative and documentary programs with special mention of her work for National Geographic Channel International which was broadcasted globally.. Inspired by her many travels abroad, Marijke started to focus more and more on photography. She felt challenged by capturing a story in just one single shot instead of a moving image. After two decades of film production she decided to pursue her photography passion and started studying at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. In December 2017 she graduated. She was selected New Dutch Photography Talent 2018 by GUP. That year her work was featured on the cover of the accompanying book. She now works as an independent photographer, specialising in portrait and fine art photography.

‘Whether shooting people or elements of nature, I search for poetry, for softness, for aesthetics. I prefer to make them stand out, to transform them, to turn vulnerability into strength so pride and radiance reveals. Nature does that independently. I just have to tune in and look delicately for the right angle, a distinctive presence of light or maybe a gentle breeze. People I have to guide by keeping the right balance between talking, listening and being silent, by giving confidence and by gaining trust. I guess this is where my background in psychology comes in.

I love to meet and portray people. And I have a passion for capturing poetic moments while wandering through nature.. Becoming a professional photographer I always had the idea that I had to choose between them. People or nature? People or nature? But finally I came to the conclusion that choosing between them is.not an option. They are both essential to my photography.’

Besides working as a solo photographer, Marijke forms a creative duo APITULEY & DE SCHEPPER with Charlotte Apituley. In addition to commissioned portrait work, they initiate visual projects in its broadest sense. A&DS photo magazine - a limited edition photo art book featuring international photographic talent - is a great example of it.

BOOKS

A&DS photo magazine, art book self published (together with Charlotte Apituley, 128 pages, offset, limited edition of 500, November 2019

Appelblauwzeegroen, book self published, 64 pages, offset, limited edition of 180, December 2017

Dreamer, cahier self published, 20 pages, 5 copies, November 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Playboy, portraits artist & TV Host Eddy Zoëy in main interview, February 2022

Tableau Magazine, portrait LangArt by Apituley & De Schepper with interview, November 2021

Design of the Times, special with interview on A&DS photo magazine in Adformatie, January 21 2020

Eye candy, review of A&DS photo magazine in Fonk Magazine, December 24 2019

De camera naar binnen gericht, review of A&DS photo magazine in NRC Handelsblad / NRC Next by, December 13 & 17 2019

Hoofdzaken, number 2 & nummer 4, magazine by Hoofdpijnnet, several portraits, June 2019

Analyse Nederland, special from Financieele Dagblad, portrait Leonie van den Beuken, February 2019

HVANA, portrait Daryll Ricardo Landbrug, February 2018

Apituley & De Schepper in Kiekie Tabloid, Interview with Marijke De Schepper, March 2017

Hello Gorgeous Magazine, number 22, Spring 2018

New Dawn about Apituley & De Schepper Expo 001

De Monsterkamer about ‘Appelblauwzeegroen’, January 2018

New Dawn about Exposition New 2018 x Brix, January 2018

i-D Magazine article about favourites Always Now exhibition, December 2017

4 pages in New Photo 2018 by GUP Magazine, November 2017

EXHIBITIONS

A&DS photo expo, Amsterdam, May 19-21

Launch and exhibition Apituley & De Schepper photo magazine, Amsterdam, November 9 & 10 2019

‘Mijn hersenen werken anders’, Bovenij Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, March 2019

001 by Apituley & De Schepper Photo Collective, Amsterdam, April 2-8 2018

New 2018 x Brix organized by GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, January 18 – February 28 2018

New Photo 2018 - 5&33 Amsterdam,  November 2017 - January 2018

ALWAYS NOW graduation, Loods 6, Amsterdam, December 2017

Het Oog, Fotoacademie Amsterdam, April 2016 - July 2016

AWARDS

Cover of the New Dutch Photography Talent 2018 book by GUP Magazine

Awarded as New Dutch Photography Talent 2018 by GUP Magazine

EDUCATION

Photography, Fotoacademie Amsterdam, 2013 - 2017

Film Direction & Production, Open Studio Amsterdam, 1997 - 2000

Spanish Language & Culture, Universidad de Málaga, Spain, 1996 - 1997

Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, 1993 - 1997

History of Art, Ghent University, Belgium, 1992 - 1993