Here Are The Young Men Project By Claire Felicie

Claire Felicie was born in the south of the Netherlands, in the city of Breda, in 1966. She took first pictures with her brother’s camera at the age of 18. When she developed the film and saw the results, she immidiatly bought a camera of her own. In 1988, after the birth of her eldest son (who is now a marine in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps) she moved to Amsterdam with her husband. There she studied history at the University of Amsterdam and gave birth to four more children in the coming years.
In 2001 she decided to start her own business in photography, and since then she has had a lot of exhibitions and publications with her three so far photoseries: In the forecourt, 2001-2004; Moonstruck/How to disappear completely, 2005; and Here are the young men, 2009-2010. In 2007 she made the children’s book ‘Girl of the Nightwatch’ in cooperation with famous Dutch artist Jan Wolkers. In 2009 she realised the big art project ‘Screenview’: 44 photographs fixed on the screens on the highway A10-West, Amsterdam.
As a child of four years old she was confronted with her mothers’ death. Since then she is fascinated by life changing experiences and its effect on daily lives.