Marlonneke Willemsen was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, in 1981. She has a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Rotterdam. She then studied at the Rotterdam School of Photography from 2009 to 2012, specialising in documentary photography. Her work has been exhibited several times in the Netherlands. In 2019, she was awarded the Zuidplas Culture Prize.
A simple idea - to document the different growth stages of various species - has resulted in an intriguing and compelling photography project. -- Amateur Photographer;