ISABELLE VAILLANT^(FR)

Isabelle Vaillant, who recently moved to Arles, is a self-taught French photographer. Over more than twenty years she has developed a unique approach, combining photography, installation and sound work (interviews and recordings). For her first series in 1999 she turned the lens on herself. These instinctive self-portraits marked the beginning of her artistic engagement. She exhibited this work at the Galerie du Forum in Toulouse, then at the Kiyosato Museum of Photography in Japan who acquired several of her pieces. She was also selected for the Young International Photography festival in Niort in 2000. She has published several books such as Les Photos du dimanche (Filigranes, 2006). In 2024, she co-authored a poetic text Pour toi, with Elisa Le Merrer under the pen name Soeurs Ravilly. For more than twenty years, Isabelle Vaillant has also worked with vulnerable people, including adolescents in educational or medical environments, people living on the edge of society and in prison or other institutionalised settings.

Isabelle Vaillant was a winner of the GLAZ 2023 Grand Prix of portfolio readings