Biography
Delphine Blast is a French documentary and portrait photographer, based between Paris and Bogotá.
After studying project management, Delphine worked for several years in France and abroad before finally turning to photography. In 2011, she decided to go back to France to become a professional photographer where she studied photojournalism at EMI CFD’s school of Paris.
Delphine's work draws primarily on an emotional response and engagement with her subjects. She focuses on the personal and private aspects of people’s lives and is motivated by a strong desire to get under the skin and straight to the heart of the issues they strive to deal with. Believing that we are all connected on every level, she focuses on the humanitarian dimension of life and wish to connect the human and natural kingdoms all together. Delphine works regularly for the press, NGOs and various institutions in France and abroad, while she keeps on working on personal projects that are meaningful to her.
Her work has been exhibited in France, Bolivia, Dominican Republic and more recently in Georgia where her two projects about the women issue in Colombia were exhibited at the Kolga Festival, in Tbilisi. Her portrait of "Laura Cristina" from her work "Quinceañera in Bogotá" won the prize of the best photograph of the year 2014 by the Spanish magazine Portalvoz de Espana.
Delphine is a member of the studio Hans Lucas since 2015.
