CÉLINE CLANET

Céline Clanet (1977, Chambéry) graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure de la Photographie of Arles. She is interested in remote or secret places, wild landscapes, and their inhabitants. She has been working since 2005 on the European Arctic continental territory.

Her Máze photographic series, about a sámi village of Norwegian Lapland, was awarded with several prizes in Europe and USA, including the “Critical Mass Award” (USA) and was published as a monograph by Photolucida (USA). She also achieved Kola, a 5-year photo project about the Russian Lapland, for which she crossed an Arctic territory deeply altered by human activities, a project supported by the Centre National pour les Arts Plastiques (France) and published by Loco.

In 2022, she was recipient of the “Grande Commande photographique nationale” supported by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Ministry of Culture, with Les Ilots Farouches (“The Wild Islets”), a project focusing on the wildest French natural spaces, the most protected natural areas in the country.

In 2023, Ground Noise, a black and white work mixing micrographs and photographs, focusing on the visible and invisible worlds of the forest, is published by Actes Sud (France). This series is exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles the same year.

Published and exhibited internationally, her photographic work is part of collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Neuflize OBC (France), the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (France), the Société Française de Photographie (France), the Archives Départementales de Savoie (France), the Portland Art Museum (USA), as well as several private collections.

Céline Clanet published 7 monographs: Ground Noise (Actes Sud, 2023), Kola (Loco, 2018), Accès Réservé (Ardi/DRAC Normandie, 2017), Les Chapieux, Géographie d’un secret (Actes Sud, 2014), Du torrent au courant (Actes Sud, 2011), Máze (Photolucida, 2010) and Un Mince Vernis de Réalité (Filigranes, 2005).

She lives and works in Paris.