Biography

Gabrielle Duplantier is a French photographer born in 1978.

After studying Plastic Arts and then Art History, she invested herself in the practice of photography.

She has published two books with editions lamaindonne, Volta (2014) and Terres Basses (2018).

His work is inspired by nearby territories, nature, portraits. From shots that are often rugged to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of an apprenticeship as a painter, combines with the fragility of figures.

Suspended movements, organic landscapes, twilight moments, inhabited portraits of women or children, Gabrielle pursues the affirmation, worried at the same time as obstinate, from her point of view as a subject, less attached to freezing reality than to him. claim a right of inspection.

All his photographs are inspired by a delicacy and a brutal force, a passion and a grace, something that the night competes with both the demonic and the candor. Gabrielle holds mist and sparkle, she owes oak and reed, landscape and phantasmagoria. To the granite of desires and the sand of life.

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