Glacier #1, 2024
Margaret Lansink received her BA in Photography from the PhotoAcademy in Amsterdam and continued her studies at Le Masterklass Paris and Atelier Smedsby.
From the beginning of her artistic career, Lansink positioned herself within the tradition of intuitive, analog photography, while expanding its expressive possibilities through collage, painting and alternative printing techniques such as Liquid Light and platinum palladium printing. Her visual language — subtle, poetic and emotionally charged — seeks to question dominant ideals of beauty, presence and control, especially as they relate to the female body and the aging self.
Lansink first gained international attention with her award-winning series Borders of Nothingness – On the Mend, a deeply personal exploration of loss and reconciliation, grounded in Japanese philosophy. Her work consistently addresses themes of impermanence, transformation and visibility — in both the human and natural realm — using fragmentation, layering and physical alteration as core strategies. She has published eight photobooks, four of which were handmade in limited editions. Through her “soft activism”, she confronts conventional views of femininity, age and ecological detachment. In her most recent series, Lansink expands her practice to include abstracted landscapes and painted photographic collages, in which the original image becomes partially hidden, inviting the viewer to question what remains seen, and what is rendered invisible.
Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and festivals across Europe, North America and Asia, including Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Miami, Tbilisi, Amsterdam, and The Hague. They are part of major public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris).
In 2019, Lansink was awarded both the Grand Prize of the Hariban Award and the Best Dutch Book Design for The Kindness of One. In 2025, her book Unbound won the top prize at the Fedrigoni Top Awards. Lansink is the founder of iwi_collective, a platform for socially engaged visual artists, and is currently based in the Netherlands.
From the beginning of her artistic career, Lansink positioned herself within the tradition of intuitive, analog photography, while expanding its expressive possibilities through collage, painting and alternative printing techniques such as Liquid Light and platinum palladium printing. Her visual language — subtle, poetic and emotionally charged — seeks to question dominant ideals of beauty, presence and control, especially as they relate to the female body and the aging self.
Lansink first gained international attention with her award-winning series Borders of Nothingness – On the Mend, a deeply personal exploration of loss and reconciliation, grounded in Japanese philosophy. Her work consistently addresses themes of impermanence, transformation and visibility — in both the human and natural realm — using fragmentation, layering and physical alteration as core strategies. She has published eight photobooks, four of which were handmade in limited editions. Through her “soft activism”, she confronts conventional views of femininity, age and ecological detachment. In her most recent series, Lansink expands her practice to include abstracted landscapes and painted photographic collages, in which the original image becomes partially hidden, inviting the viewer to question what remains seen, and what is rendered invisible.
Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and festivals across Europe, North America and Asia, including Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Miami, Tbilisi, Amsterdam, and The Hague. They are part of major public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris).
In 2019, Lansink was awarded both the Grand Prize of the Hariban Award and the Best Dutch Book Design for The Kindness of One. In 2025, her book Unbound won the top prize at the Fedrigoni Top Awards. Lansink is the founder of iwi_collective, a platform for socially engaged visual artists, and is currently based in the Netherlands.