Marin Driguez

biography

French photographer, born in 1999, member of Agence VU’ since 2022, lives and works mainly between Paris (France) and Brussels (Belgium).

Marin Driguez began his photographic practice in the ground, at just 14 years old, during the social movements in Nantes in 2014. Demonstrations and social struggles that he continues to cover on assignments for Sipa Press in Nantes and Paris before moving to Brussels in 2017 to train in documentary photography at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de l’image le 75, and then to follow the Photographic Mentorship of the Fonds Régnier pour la Création with Agence VU’ in 2020.

Involved photographer, he develops numerous collaborations with the French and Belgian press for which he realizes reports on the social news and the mobilizations that it generates (demonstrations against the labor law in France, the Yellow Vests movement, the evacuation of the ZAD Notre-Dame des Landes, etc.). Attaching himself to testifying to the realities underlying the public and punctual expression of demands, he progressively moves away from the codes of photojournalism to draw up, beyond the current events, a fair and human portrait of these actors, and develops a documentary writing which leads him to realize series on other grounds than the one of the street and the direct confrontation between the power and the civil society: the cultural life, the youth, the health.

In parallel to his commissioned work for the press or institutions, he develops long-term personal work.

After a first subject on the daily life of a group of militants in Nantes to understand “who is hiding behind the hoods“, he turned his attention to the hospital world “understood as a microcosm, as a compact sample of our society“.

With Taking Care, he has been documenting since 2018, in various Belgian public hospitals and departments, the caregivers and the patients, the emergency time and the long time of hospitalization, the dispensation of medical care and the social care, the spirit of cohesion and the lack of means… to which is added the surge of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Regularly presented in the media (Libération, Le Monde, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, ELLE, Society, L’Équipe, Le Nouvel Obs, RTBF, L’Echo…), his work has been exhibited at the World Expo 2020, and has won the ANI-PixTrakk prize, the Roger de Conynck prize and the King Baudouin Foundation jury prize, as well as the Roger de Conynck scholarship.

Series

Taking Care, 2018-2024

Série | “Taking Care” is a long-term documentary on the Belgian public hospital system.

Home-Réalisations Marin Driguez séries

Night life, 2022

Série | With Night life, Marin Driguez plunges us into the world of the night. From the underground to the posh clubs, via festivals, the party is declined and reinvented over the course of the evening.

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Surgery, 2019-2022

Series | Series on surgery carried out in the operating and the emergency room of St Peter's Hospital and Brugmann Hospital in Brussels between 2019 and 2022.

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La Boum, 2021

Series | "La Boum" is a clandestine party that took place on 1 April and 1 May 2021 in the Bois de la Cambre in Brussels.

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Waiting room, 2019

Series | Marin Driguez photographed the waiting bench of the Emergency Room of the Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels from January to August 2019.

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Evacuation of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD, 2018

Série | In the 1970s, Notre Dame des Landes, a territory located in the north of Nantes, was designated to host a new airport. A resistance is organized to protect the area, a ZAD (Zone A Défendre, Area to be Defended) is born. It has been evacuated on April 09, 2018.

Home-Réalisations Marin Driguez séries