1946
Born in Bergambacht, the Netherlands

1963-1976
Graphic designer

1973-1974
Evening-classes drawing and staged photography at the Free Academy in The Hague.
Start as a self-taught documentary photographer.

Since 1976
Works as a photographic artist. She starts with the still on-going project Hanging Around, of which she exhibits from time to time pictures of situations she meets during her travels and which she describes as the particular of everyday life. With the help of grants she works on long-term photo projects with delicate social-cultural subjects. These result in:


Photobooks
(with self-written tex ,design and publishingt) and exhibitions:

1984
? Miserere, the great pilgrimages of penance in Europe, Dutch edition. - 2500 copies

1985
? Miserere, English, French and German edition - 5000 copies

1988
? The Burden of Existence, photo?s -stories of mentally handicapped - 6500 copies

1998
? A Last Farewell, death rituals in the multicultural Netherlands - 4000 copies

2004
? Timeless Love, the erotic in later life

1977-2002
? Various publications in survey books on Photography and Art:* Portfolio publications in a variety of photomagazines in Holland and abroad.


Awards

1989
? Maria Austria Photography Prize for book The Burden of Existence

1990
? The Dr. A. Heineken- Art Prize for the complete ?uvre.

Documentary assignments
(subjects of personal choice of M.B)

1977
? Allotments - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts

1978
? Punk and Pop concerts - for the Historical Archives in Rotterdam

1983 - 1984
? Working at classical music - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts

1985
? Classical Music and Ballet rehearsals - for the Holland Festival


Commissioned Art-Projects
decorating new public buildings

1979
? School in Alkmaar

1989
? Nursing-home for Alzheimer patients, Rotterdam

1990
? Hospital (construction phase 1), Dirksland (with Hans Aarsman)

2000
? Hospital (construction phase 2), Dirksland, solo

Her work is purchased by museums, archives, institutes and private collections.**
The photographs of Marrie Bot have been exhibited all over Europe in various galleries and museums.***

With regularity she is member of selection committees for documentary photo projects
She gives lectures, workshops and masterclasses at artschools and for visual antropological studies (among others at the University of Leiden ).


* Publications in survey books on photography and art:

1978
? Photography in The Netherlands 1940 -1975

1980
? New Dutch Photography

1982
? Photography in Europe Now, No.4

1985
? Purchases of the National Art Collection 1984, works of contemporary artists

1986
? The animal in Photography 1843-1985, The Photographer?s Gallery, London

1986
? Roots and Turns, 20th century photography in The Netherlands

1989
? Photography Between Covers, the Dutch documentary photography after 1945

1991
? The Fourth Wall photography as theater

1992
? Commissioned photography, 1986-1992

1992
? Photos for the city 1972-1991, Documentary photography for the city of Amsterdam

1993
? Free Play, Dutch Art 1970 -1990

1998
? Post-mortem paintings and pictures in Dutch Art -1500-today

2002
? Art without Church, Dutch Art and religion 1945-1990

2002
? Open no.3, Art for psycho geriatric nursing-homes, SKOR

2002
? Photographers in The Netherlands 1852-2002


Monographs:

1985
? Monograph no 101, Galerie Municipal du Château d?Eau, Toulouse

1990
? Marrie Bot Photographer, on the occasion of the Heineken Art-Prize


** Photos purchased by:

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The National Institute for the Arts,Amsterdam
Museum for Jewish History, Amsterdam
Museum for Religious Art, Uden
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
The Printcollection of the University of Leiden
Art Foundation of Rotterdam
The Municipal Archive of Rotterdam
The Municipal Archive of Amsterdam
Bibliothèque National, Paris
Municipal Collection Château d?Eau,Toulouse
Museum Nicéphore Niepce, Châlon sur Saône
Graham Nash Collection, Pasadena
Helmut Gernsheim Collection in the Reiss-Engelhorn- Museum
Private Collections