Wendy Marijnissen is a documentary photographer from Belgium.
In 2009 she traveled to Pakistan for the first time. For the following 3 years she worked in Pakistan focusing mainly on photographing the hardships of pregnancy and childbirth there. From fistula, traditional midwives to a camp pregnancy after the devastating flood in 2010 which displaced millions of people in the country. A part of this work was used for the 'End fistula campaign' of the UNFPA.
In 2012 she traveled to Afghanistan for the first time to document the lives of women in this warn torn country and photographed Fawzia Koofi, the then first female presidential candidate. A year later she worked with Doctors Without Borders in Tajikistan on children with TB and in Belgium she produced a series 'Us/Them' on Muslim women and the headscarf issues in her country. The project was a part of the European group project 'The rise of populism in Europe', produced by Fotodok.
In 2015 she returned to Pakistan twice to continue working on what now is her first book 'Always the guest' and she founded the non profit organization 'Bending The Frame', which tries to create new platforms and finds ways to bring strong photography out into the world.
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