Artist Statement
For the past few years, I have collected items from my compost and recycled bin. These remnants of our everyday activities are the unique subjects in my photographs. Through the artistic process, they are transformed from mundane waste into extraordinary images. This transformation mirrors the one that occurs through the composting and recycling processes: wasted food scraps become a valuable soil amendment, recycled items are resurrected into usable objects.

Like many, I am concerned by the deterioration of our environment. Specific environmental issues are difficult to solve in isolation as all things are connected. My photographs, by emphasizing the beauty of mundane everyday waste, offer a counterpoint to the complexity of the problems we have to face. In addition, the photographs highlight one personal action that is a small piece of an overall climate solution.

 

 

I was born in 1976 in Nantes, France. I studied chemical engineering at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie in Rennes, France, before completing an MA (2003) and an MFA (2004), both in photography, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Since graduating, I have always been involved with photography in its multiple facets. I have explored scientific imagery as a medical photographer, I have shared my passion for fine art photography as an adjunct faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver and I have continued my exploration of the medium and its expressive possibilities.

I have been living in the Denver area for the past 9 years. I have showed my work in several wonderful local venues: The Center for Visual Arts in Denver, the Dairy Center for the arts in Boulder, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Alliance Francaise de Denver. I have also exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2012, my series of tintypes “A collection of somewhat random specimens” was exhibited in France, at Oyonnax and during the “Quinzaine Photo Nantaise” in my hometown. My most recent project on composting and recycling has been shown at the University of Northern Iowa in October 2014 and showcased at the Center For Fine Art Photography in March/April 2015.