Hi, I’m Mariëtte.I live on the Namibian coast with my husband, our two boys, and a life that is usually covered in a fine layer of sand. Before photography became my full-time work, I spent years in tourism and lodge management, learning this country from the inside out — long gravel roads, changing weather, remote places, and the kind of logistics you only really understand once you’ve lived them. That background still shapes the way I photograph today. I’m not interested in turning Namibia into a backdrop or your wedding day into a production. What matters to me is how it felt to stand there. The wind. The stillness. The exhaustion after a long drive. The way people soften once they stop performing for the camera. Most of the couples I work with are not looking for a perfectly choreographed experience. They care more about connection than spectacle. They want a wedding day that feels honest, grounded and deeply personal — whether that means exchanging vows in Deadvlei at sunrise, sharing coffee beside a fire in Damaraland, or gathering a handful of people at a remote lodge somewhere between desert and ocean. My role in all of this is fairly simple: to help you feel at ease, to guide when needed, and to notice the things you might miss in the moment. Because weddings pass quickly. The photographs should bring you back slowly.

Over the years, photography has taken me across Namibia’s dunes, coastlines, canyons and safari lodges, but the work itself has become less about landscapes and more about people within them. The quiet moments. The in-between moments. The feeling of being somewhere real together. If that sounds like the kind of day you want to remember, then we’ll probably get along just fine.