About Marie-Christine Goergen

I don’t just walk past things so easily
I’ve got a problem.
I look.
At everything.
At a landscape, of course. But also at a piece of bark, a stone, a mushroom, a puddle of water or a tiny creature that would probably have preferred me to just walk on by.
So I don’t always do that.
I can wander along a beach and almost forget that I’m actually on holiday, because I’m looking for something that others might not even notice.
Colour draws me in. Light, too. Textures. Shapes. Contrasts. And, above all, things that are unexpectedly beautiful.
I capture them with my camera and then go home to look at them again. Because that’s where it really begins.
I’m not particularly interested in simply preserving what I saw. I want to discover what else is in such an image. I play with them, change things, emphasise, remove — until it reveals why I kept looking at it.
That’s how my images come about.
They can broadly be divided into three ways of looking:
Colour
 For images that are allowed to splash, glow or simply have a lovely presence.
Monochrome For when a riot of colour gets in the way and light, form and atmosphere are allowed to take over.
Close-up For when I get so close that a small part of nature suddenly becomes a world of its own.
So my work begins with curiosity.
But perhaps, ultimately, it’s even more about the art of not rushing past.
Please feel free to have a look around.