Cécile Attalin

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French photographer, I live and work in Strasbourg.  

 

I create works of art by exploring my daily life in its smallest details, by experimenting the reactions of color with light. The moments captured in my environment can seem timeless, sometimes even abstract. Are they remnants of my training as a historian?

 

We find the influence of drawing and painting in my photographs (Caravaggio for its chiaroscuro), photo or scientific discoveries (19th century pictorialism or scientific illustrations by Ernst Haeckel, artist and biologist of the 19th century who knew how to see beauty in the most improbable creature).  

 

I search in my photos for light or its absence, being (portraits) and non-being (objects) and the harmony of colors. Another of my sources of inspiration in photo: John Batho. Collector, the objects staged come from my collections.

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Exhibitions

- JBF Art Gallery, Rue de Miromesnil, Paris 8th, exhibition in preparation, March 2020

- Festimage Fair, Saint-Gely-du Fesq, 2010

- Café Joseph, Montpellier 2010: videoprojection of the winning photos during the FNAC Montpellier photo marathon.

- CRDP Montpellier 2010: nature and environment exhibition: "drops" series

- "Corum des photographes" fair, Montpellier 2009

- Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, 2009, exhibition of the award-winning photo at the Dijon Photo Marathon, 2009.

- Cloister of the Lycée Condorcet, Paris 9, 2000

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Awards

- Salins-les-Bains photo competition, 1st prize 2011

- FNAC Montpellier 2010 photo marathon, award-winning photo "Mini-Maxi"

- FNAC Dijon 2009 photo marathon, "favorite" prize

- Canon Photo Prize 2005