AVA ART VISION AWARDS
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTORY

Photographers

Samuel Bollendorff

French photographer and director based in Paris. His work addresses social issues, health, labour, inequality and environmental change through photography, film and interactive documentary formats.

Denis Darzacq

Paris-based French artist whose work explores the body, movement, disability, public space and contemporary consumer environments. His staged and documentary images question how individuals occupy social and urban space.

Valérie Belin

Paris-based artist whose large-scale photographic works examine identity, beauty, representation,illusion and the visual codes of mass media. Her images often blur the boundary between the human, the artificial and the idealised.

Claudine Doury

French photographer whose long-term projects explore adolescence, memory, family, landscape and communities across Russia, Siberia and Central Asia. Her visual language combines documentary precision with a poetic sense of time.

Édouard Elias

French photojournalist whose long-term work focuses on social, military and humanitarian realities. His projects favour sustained observation and human proximity rather than fast news coverage.

Stéphane Lavoué

French photographer recognised for psychologically rich portraits of artists, actors, writers, public figures and communities. His practice combines editorial commissions with personal documentary and landscape projects.

Guillaume Herbaut

French documentary photographer based in Paris. His long-term work examines conflict, memory, political transformation and the traces that major historical events leave on people and landscapes.

Marguerite Bornhauser

Paris-based visual artist and photographer whose work uses colour, light, sequencing and material experimentation. Her practice moves between personal projects, editorial commissions, books and hybrid  photographic objects.

Théo Gosselin

French photographer whose cinematic visual language explores friendship, travel, youth culture and freedom. His projects combine documentary observation with carefully composed, intimate storytelling.

Sonia Sieff

Paris-based photographer working across fashion, portraiture, travel and artistic nude photography. Her personal work is recognised for an intimate approach to the body, identity and freedom, often informed by analogue photography.

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