Biography

French-Swiss photographer and director, I studied at ECAL and University of Montreal. I jointly develop photographic and cinematographic work and have directed several short films, including ‘Entre frère et sœur’, Golden Leopard for best short film at the Locarno Festival. In my photographic work, I explore narrative boundaries by borrowing from the visual arts, cinema and literature. I use fictionnal potentiel of territories, drawing from collective imagination, through elliptic narrative devices and processes. I showed my short-films in Europe and North America, exposed my photographs in France, Switzerland, Germany. I actually work on a collection of photographic short novels with Olivier Hilaire, ‘The True Truth's Stories’.

Awards

– 2016-18, Nomination for Prix Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
– 2015, Coup de cœur, Screenwriting Residency ‘Plume et Pellicule’, Dreamago, International
– 2007, 2010, Coup de cœur, Bourse du Talent Espace, Paris
– 1997, Prix de l’Office fédéral de la Culture, Switzerland
– 1996, Golden Leopard for best short-film, Festival of Locarno, Switzerland

Exhibitions

– 2017, Espace Nonante-Neuf (collectif), Rencontres d'Arles, France
– 2017, ‘WÜNSCHELRUTENGÄNGE IM REICHE DES WASSERS’, Kunstvereins Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany
– 2016, Musée de l'Elysée (projection), Lausanne, Switzerland
– 2013, Galerie See Studio / Cetraro-Escougnou, Paris, France
– 2013, Festival CIRCULATION(S), Paris, France

Publications

– Blanc, Isabelle & Hillaire, Olivier, THE TRUE TRUTH’S STORIES, Collection of 6 books, Paris, Editions Loco, 2018-19, in preparation
– Collective, The Nominees’ Book 2016-2018, Lausanne, Musée de l’Elysée & Arles, les Éditions Photosynthèses, 2017
– Collective, The Eyes N°8, New photographic Narratives, Paris, Aman Iman Publishing, 2017
– Miscellaneous publications as catalogues (CIRCULATIONS(S), Galerie See Studio, Auction Damien Leclère), press (Géo, Elle Déco, Je Pars, …), television (Canal+, Canalstreet, France 4), internet (Lensculture)