French photographer born in 1984, I followed a postgraduate course in modern and contemporary history in both France and Hungary. I then spent two years across East Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town. During this 25,000-kilometer journey, I completed documentaries and photographic works in some fifteen countries.
My photographic identity as an author with a strong narrative character requires a highly human, documentary approach to the issues to which I devote myself. This involves a great amount of time and empathy, as I believe that to document the life of another person, you first need to take the time to get to know them.
I work independently or as part of photographic residencies in France and abroad. Solo and group exhibitions give me the opportunity to present my photographs in festivals and cultural institutions all over the world.
I am privileged to work with brilliant writers whose work I admire, and with whom I travel the globe to create stories published in the French and international press.
I also work alongside my partner Cyril Abad on long-term projects. Our creation, The Kratt Metaphor is a conceptual photographic research project, the fruit of three years' journey in Estonia, following in the footsteps of a golem that has become an artificial intelligence. Presented as part of the Rencontres photographiques en Arles in 2023, this exhibition is programmed in Estonia on the occasion of #Tartu 2024 European Capital of Culture.
In 2018 I received the Health Journalism Grant awarded by the European Journalism Center in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. My work Nsenene Paradis was awarded the Canon Discovery IWPA 2022 prize. Together with Cyril Abad, we were given the CNAP grant for contemporary documentary photography in 2021.
Based in France, on the Côte d'Azur, I belong to the international network of women photographers Women Photograph.
They trust me, publish my work and assign me photographic missions :
° Media GEO, The Washington Post, Aftenposten Innsikt, Vanity Fair, Newsweek Japan, DaysJapan, Courrier International, D. La Republica, Rythms Monthly Taiwan, Qantara, El Pais, Le Monde, Le Figaro Madame, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Libération, L'Obs, L’Equipe, Le Figaro, Amnesty International, Studio Ciné Live, GQ, Le Monde des Religions, La Croix, Le Temps, Le Vif, Politis, Le Parisien…
° Corporate + Institutional Naval Group, Amnesty International, Les Éditions du Seuil, Erasmus+ Agency, INALCO (The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations), Cap Sciences Bordeaux, African Institut (IDAF Bordeaux), New journalism School of Bordeaux, GEW Germany…
EXHIBITIONS /
Kratt Metaphor :: #Tartu 2024 European Capital of Culture 2024, Põlva, Estonia :: 07.2024
Kratt Metaphor :: Fictions Documentaires Festival, Carcassonne, France :: 11.2023
Kratt Metaphor :: Rencontres d’Arles, Carte Blanche Photon, Arles, France :: 08.2023
Nsenene Paradise :: Alliance Française of Banjul, The Gambie :: 02.2023
Nsenene Paradise :: Alliance Française of Ziguinchor, Senegal :: 01.2023
Nsenene Paradise :: WRP Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland :: 06.2022
Nsenene Paradise :: Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería, Spain :: 06.2022
Nsenene Paradise :: Cervantes Institut, Paris, France :: 04.2022
Nsenene Paradise :: Alliance Française of Dubai :: 04.2022
Nsenene Paradise :: FCCJ, Tokyo, Japan :: 02.2022
Nsenene Paradise :: Festival L’Oeil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France :: 10.2020
Black Metal :: Nuits des Bibliothèques, Lille, France :: 2020
Black Metal :: Photographic Nights, Bordeaux, France :: 2019
Black Metal :: Rocher de Palmer, Bordeaux, France :: 2018
Group exhibition :: Printemps Photographique de Pomerol, France :: 2019
RESIDENCIES /
10.2024 :: Alliance Française of Mombasa, Kenya, creation and transmission residency
10.2023 :: Rouvrir le Monde, creation and transmission residency DRAC, PACA
02.2023 :: Alliance Française of Banjul, The Gambia, creation and transmission residency
AWARDS & GRANTS /
08.2024 :: Culture Moves Europe mobility grant
2022 :: Nsenene Paradise, Canon award IWPA, International Women in Photo
2021 :: CNAP creation grant for contemporary documentary photography
2018 :: Winner of the Health Journalism Grant from the European Journalism Centre and the Gates Foundation
PROJECTIONS /
The Santa Cruise :: Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan :: 2023
Journey to the Baltic Sovietland :: Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan :: 2022
Coronascope © :: Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France :: 2020
Arles, SAIF 20th birthday :: 2019