Since the start in 2013, this collaborative art project was created and photographed by Marc Haers. By using his full skillset in writing, photography and 3D rendering he intends to fuse art, history, fashion, storytelling and humanity. By bringing together talented creatives which include designers, styling, hair & make-up artists, models, musicians and actors he aims to infuse the fantastical/fictional images it with the true stories of real people.

Marc’s work is strongly informed by his personal journey. It is an outlet for regression, post traumatic growth and an attempt to ‘free himself’ through art by collaborating and building life-long relationships with other creatives.

Testimonial by Liam Maher (Menswhere/ECCO);

The work of Marc Haers includes both creative portrait and commercial commissions. Whether he is creating global campaigns for international fashion labels or working on personal projects, it is his unwavering effort to fuse the true with the symbolic that distinguishes his stylistic signature.

He works quickly and openly with his subjects in a style that has allowed him to avoid artifice. His ability to normalise the relationship between photographer and model is a remarkable feature of his approach. Regardless of culture or background, his subjects consistently comment on the easy energy of his process. His eye for lighting and composition combined with his ability to capture the fleeting in-between expressions that pass in momentary reverie across the faces he records inform his images with sense of both the iconic and the romantic. 

Despite his fluid and fast-paced approach to documentary work, Marc remains a painstaking classicist. He hopes to produce images that are simultaneously truthful and immediate as well as universal and timeless.

Haers' has used his camera to tell the stories of communities from Africa to Haiti. My own collaborations with him include a pending folio being developed together with my wife Jennifer, entitled Menswhere which examines a loosely connected community of alternative tailors from Florence, London, Tokyo, New York, Iceland, Amsterdam and Norway. In each of these as well as in Haers' entirely personal multi-chapter magic realist projects; With One Another, he expresses an unrelenting root commitment to uncovering his subjects' blended sense of; Where I Come From, Where I Belong and Where I Hope to Go. This intersection of past, present and future expressed on personal, ancestral, societal, cultural and pop-cultural levels constitutes the prime motive for his various explorations as a photographer, film-maker and artist.