Margaret Lansink received her BA in Photography from the PhotoAcademy in Amsterdam and continued her studies at Le Masterklass Paris and Atelier Smedsby. From the outset of her artistic career, she positioned herself within the tradition of intuitive, analog photography, while expanding its expressive possibilities through collage, painting, and alternative printing techniques, including Liquid Light and platinum–palladium processes. Her visual language is restrained and tactile, engaging questions of presence, impermanence, and material transformation.

Lansink gained international recognition with her award-winning series Borders of Nothingness – On the Mend, an intimate exploration of loss and reconciliation informed by Japanese philosophy. Across her broader practice, themes of impermanence, transformation, and visibility recur, increasingly situated within the natural world. Landscapes, material surfaces, and processes of erosion and layering function as central motifs, reflecting a sustained engagement with time, memory, and ecological change. She has published eight photobooks, four of which were produced as handmade limited editions.

In her more recent work, Lansink has shifted her focus decisively toward nature and landscape. Through abstracted environments and painted photographic collages, original images become partially obscured or altered, allowing new relationships between image, material, and time to emerge. Her practice emphasizes slow processes, physical intervention, and the accumulation of subtle change, inviting attention to what remains visible and what gradually recedes.

Alongside her studio practice, Lansink regularly mentors and coaches emerging photographers. She is committed to fostering exchange, critical dialogue, and mutual support, with a particular focus on supporting women within the field.

Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, including Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Miami, Tbilisi, Amsterdam, and The Hague. Lansink’s work is held in major public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris). In 2019, she received both the Grand Prize of the Hariban Award and the Best Dutch Book Design award for The Kindness of One. In 2025, her book Unbound received the top prize at the Fedrigoni Top Awards. Lansink lives and works in the Netherlands.