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www.ilovejeanique.com :D

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No you can't use my work for FREE for your website.

My name is Jeanique, I'm 26 years old and I live in the Netherlands with my love Emiel, our dog Benthe and 2 cats Sterre & Koika. I got diagnosed PDD-Nos/ Asperger syndrome when I was about 9 years old, but besides that I'm a pretty normal young woman ;)
I studied multimedia design at the Graphic lyceum in Amsterdam and graduated in 2007, with film as my main major. My photography is completely autodidactism, and I still need to learn a lot!

In October 2007 I had a nervous breakdown, had to quit my study to become a drama therapist and all I could do was sleep. A year long. In October 2008 I started taking selfportraits, a 365 days project to keep myself busy and have some distraction from my depression. It was the best therapy I could ever have and it brought me beautiful things that made things a little lighter.
I felt the urge to share my story because I hope that there are people that recognize some of their own experiences and maybe have comfort out of my journey.

It seems like I've found 'my thing' in photography, especially when it comes to selfportraits. And I feel really blessed by that. It's my passion, it brings me joy and it gave me the drive to carry on. I can't imagine a life without my camera and I hope the creative flow will never leave.

Since my 365 project I've been published several times and they asked me to tell my story on 2 Dutch radio stations.

Some Bitchy notes sorry it's for my own flickr joy:

I can't help it, but I do get a little irritated by people asking me what camera/light/programme etc I use. Or how I did this or this. All I know/can/do is self-taught, so I'm sure you can do it too. I never had a class, I don't have a fancy camera (nikon d70s) and I don't have a budget. That makes you more creative in my opinion, 'cause you have to work harder.
I love making props myself, I love doing the make-up, I love shopping on E-bay and find perfect wigs for 40 cents. And so on. The sky is the limit and don't let ANYONE tell you what's right or wrong! Dare to take some risks and feel free!

Ofcourse, I do have the benefit to be autistic, it makes me look more detailed ;) lol (trust me, when it comes to other things this isn't that handy, 'cause when it comes to bigger parts I fail)

If you put like 50 of my photos at once as a fave without any further comment I block you. It's really annoying.

I'm sorry if I didn't add back you as a contact. I get many requests and my contactlist is already too big to comment/check on all of you. So mostly I only add the ones that comment me several times.
Also when it comes to e-mailing back, I'm really bad at that!!

And I only comment if I feel the need to, so remove me from your list if I dissapoint you.

There's copyright on all of my photos.


please don't put any of my work on your blog/website/tumblr whatever without asking. It's annoying.


If you want to do a copycat of one of my photos, please give credits to the one who who did the creative thinking.