CÉLINE CLANET

Céline Clanet is the renowned photographer for the 2024 edition of our “Photography & Science” creative residency program in Toulouse.

Céline Clanet (1977), a graduate of the ENSP in Arles, is interested in remote or secret places, wild landscapes and their occupants. Since 2005 she has been working on the European Arctic (“Máze”, Photolucida 2010, “Kola”, Loco 2018).

Attentive to the ecological impact of human actions and to areas in the throes of change, she photographs these places where frictions play out, between the collapse of landmarks and the perpetuation of age-old values, and also explores the complex relationships we have with the animal world.

In 2023 she published Ground Noise (Actes Sud), a work on the visible and invisible worlds of the forest, which was exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles the same year. Winner of the BnF’s “Grande commande photographique”, she produced “Les Ilots Farouches”, about France’s most protected natural areas in free evolution.

Her work, published and exhibited in Europe and abroad, is part of the collections of the BnF, the CNAP, the Neuflize OBC Collection, the Société Française de Photographie, the Archives Départementales de Savoie and the Portland Art Museum (USA), and has been the subject of 7 monographs.

She lives and works in Paris.