BORN IN 1953 AND RAISED IN LEUVEN, BELGIUM, MAG AND HER FOUR SIBLINGS GREW UP IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE NATURE WAS A VERY BIG PART OF LIFE.

" RESPECT FOR OUR SURROUNDINGS WAS TAUGHT AT A VERY YOUNG AGE."

HER FATHER WAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST AND A NATURE GUIDE.

HIS LOVE FOR ALL CREATION WAS PASSED ON IN DAILY LIFE TO ALL HIS CHILDREN.

YEARS LATER, THESE SEEDS SEWN IN MAG’S CHILDHOOD WOULD START TO BLOSSOM.

" LOOKING BACK, I NOW REALIZE HOW MY FATHER’S LOVE FOR NATURE AND EVERY SMALL DETAIL HAS SEEPED INTO MY VERY BEING. PHOTOGRAPHY HAS BEEN A REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, WHICH DOESN’T ALWAYS CONSIST OF SEEKING NEW HORIZONS, BUT IN HAVING NEW EYES."
WHEN MAG FIRST STARTED WITH PHOTOGRAPHY, SHE TAUGHT HERSELF THE BASICS THROUGH BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. LATER ON SHE TOOK A COURSE IN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE DAYTONA BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHICH LED TO HER VERY OWN DARKROOM.

MAG IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ST.-AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION

AND HAS WON SEVERAL AWARDS. SHE TAKES PART IN ART SHOWS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL FLORIDA AND IS A MEMBER OF AN INSPIRING GROUP OF ARTISTS WHO ARE VERY ACTIVE IN THE AREA.

"THROUGH MY PHOTOGRAPHY, I TRY TO CAPTURE THE TRUE SOUL OF THINGS. I TRY TO GIVE THE VIEWER A GLIMPSE OF TIME WHERE THE EVERYDAY WORLD APPEARS PEACEFUL AND HARMONIOUS. I LIKE THE

OBSERVER TO LINGER FOR A MOMENT AND OFFER A SMALL SEED THAT JUST MIGHT GROW AND OPEN UP THEIR MINDS.

I REALIZE THAT CAPTURING SUCH MOMENTS IS A LIFELONG VOYAGE.

I HOPE I COULD SHARE SOME OF THAT VOYAGE WITH YOU."

‘IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART THAT ONE CAN SEE RIGHTLY, WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE.’ ANTOINE DE SAINT EXCUPERY


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