Trui Hanoulle is a Belgian freelance photographer, storyteller, graphic designer, writer, motorbike traveller, feminist, queer and coffee addict.
Since 1999, Trui Hanoulle has travelled overland by motorbike on several occasions, from Belgium to India and beyond. In 2008, together with writer and travelling companion Gaea Schoeters, she published *Girls, Muslims & Motorbikes*, a richly illustrated travelogue about their encounters and adventures during their motorbike journey through nine Muslim countries in Eurasia.
She has published reports in De Standaard and MO*: “Queer tango in Istanbul” about queer activists in Turkey and the Middle East; “en wie ben jij?” (“and who are you?”), (self)portraits of newcomers, also exhibited at De Krook, the main library in Ghent; “#NoMeansNo in Bangladesh” about women motorcyclists in Bangladesh, “#elektrogirl”, a journey from Belgium to Istanbul and back on an electric motorbike; Eyewitness “Pioneers”, portraits of the Iranian women she had met a few months before Women Life Freedom. In the cycling magazine Bahamontes, she published “Men should just close their eyes when we ride past” about women cyclists in Iran.
She is a regular freelancer with photographs and stories in motorcycling magazines at home and abroad, always with a focus on the women she meets.
Together with a group of young newcomers, a Steiner class and various artists, she produced the theatre production “Shaduwtrein”. As a graphic designer, she specialises in books and photo books. As a motorcyclist, she has links with various international women’s motorcycling clubs, forges close friendships and writes about women’s experiences in often difficult circumstances.
She lived in Armenia for a few months, criss-crossed Iran several times on her motorbike in all directions, and continues to combine her long journeys with photography and the recording of fascinating stories.
