Publications / Récomprenses
Winner of the world's largest contest PHOTO
PHOTO magazine January / February 2017
Portfolio La Riviera
Eye of Photography - June 2016
Photo daily News : Summer 2016
Eye of Photography - July 2016
Exhibitions
« Glamorous » Deli Bo/Nice
January March 2017
"The Riviera" Photo Menton
19 – 27 November 2016
"The Emerald" at the Yacht Club / Dinard
September 2016 - January 2017
"The Riviera" au Di Piu / Nice
2015 – 2016
Formations
- A graduate of the Institute of Photographywww.institutdelaphotographie.com
- Workshop with Peter Defaixjuillet 2014www.pierredefaix.com
- Workshops with Jean Christophe BéchetRencontres Arles - August 2014Paris - June 2015
Nice - October 2016
- Workshop with Sylvie HuguesRencontres of Arles - July 2016www.sylviehugues.com
- Meet Anne PaounovResponsable photographieCentre Pompidou center - Paris - July 2016
photographic tour
From childhood, I spent hours in the lab picture of my father to watch at work, to marvel at the magic of the image revealed in stages. From that time I keep a fascination for the image in black and white.
later :
I have traveled around the world from the age of 18 years in a willingness to explore and because my job of stewardess for Lufthansa offered me extraordinary opportunities. I always had my camera in hand. It was film cameras. I collected over the years (15 years about) images from around the world.
Since 4 years :
My taste for photography has gradually become a job, it has materialized and professionalized through internships, among other (Rencontres d'Arles internships with JC Bechet etc ..), and I gradually defined an object of study.
My consistency is part of series 15 to 20 pictures that describe a place that is dear to me and inspires me. I added in the landscape the female body a sensual and poetic way. Series construct a specific rate that allows communication from one image to the other and a set of cross valuations.
I also like to make fun series and off-site.
If I take the themes that inspired
the Riviera, They are the following :
The luminosity, joyous nostalgia for the past - Years 50, Grace Kelly, exhilaration, jazz, artistes ( Picasso, Matisse, Nice school).
L'Emeraude, it is the city of my childhood and adolescence. I have total adoration for this place. Each return journey I continue to take pictures of Dinard and its surroundings thousands.
The Parisian : Paris is one of my favorite capitals and especially the series exalts one of my favorite monuments : Eiffel Tower
The Berliner : the action takes place in Germany where I lived 15 years. Berlin a city that I knew before the fall of the wall, I've seen evolve over time, I went through East Berlin / West Berlin and am transported by the story that defines the contours. The city has a force that seizes me whenever I go for a holiday.
Sissi 2.0 : cinema is very present in this series, and the story of woman : Elizabeth of Austria whose extraordinary career joined the extraordinary destiny of actress Romy Schneider. I like the idyllic landscape, poetic dimension with kitsch involved in its photogenic.
Sales : I had the opportunity to approach the scenes of bullfighting, celles the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas Madrid s'appellent. This lyrical drama between man and animal confuses me. I associate the Flamenco dancing and singing in Madrid. In the series, the meeting between the bull will die a hero and flamenco dancer dancing on songs filled with tears upsets me.
L'Ipanema : there is 25 years in Rio, I saw Gilberto Gil in concert. Brazilian music, « the girl of Ipanema », given me want to go back and do a series on this mythical place. The beauty of the dancing bodies of Brazilian women and graphics sidewalks inspires me.
In a general way, music is in my photographic work in this "background". It is another figure sets. When I do the editing ( tri) my photos to choose those who will pay and create a story, it is primarily a certain melody that connects. My culture and musical practice ( 10 ans piano ) and photography in my work intimately linked.
My projects : I work on other series ( Kerala, among others is being ) and I would find a publisher to publish a book with my series. Exhibitions are coming and festivals where my work will be presented.
my Material : A Canon 600D SLR, 3 goals, 18/124mm; 50mm, 30mm ( sigma )
my prints : Papier Canson fineart Baryta /etching – Rag cotton BFK Rives – Format 40/60 cm – 29,7/21 cm -majoritairement.
my influences : Bill Brandt, Louis Stettner, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newtown, Jean Loup Sieff, Willy Ronis, Nobuyoshi Araki, Edouard Boubat, Lillian Bassman, Vivian Maier, Claude Nori, Bernard Plossu, Ferdinando Scianna, Herb Ritts, Saul Leiter, Daido Moriyama, Sally Mann, Herbert List, Robert Doisneau, Brassai, Edward Weston and many more…
Some quotes that speak to me :
"Wandering is not the journey or the boardwalk but this world experience that refers to a fundamental question : What am I doing here ? Why here rather than elsewhere ? How to live as long as possible in this, that is to say, be happy ? How to Watch, accepting ? What am I, what I am worth, what my eyes ? » Raymond Depardon
"It's part of the work of the photographer to see more intensely than most people. It must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or the traveler who enters a strange country. » Bill Brandt
You can buy some of my work on : www.artphotolimited.com