Céline Clanet (1977, Chambéry) is a french photographer based in Paris, who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles in 1999. She shares her photographic time between personal and commissioned projects, all around the world.
Her personal work focuses mostly on remote, secretive or unknown places, and their inhabitants, animals, mysteries.
Her clients include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Pursuits, Travel+Leisure magazine, Dwell, Afar, Surface magazine, EnRoute/Air Canada, Outside Magazine, The Independent, Monocle, Le Monde, Zadig, Fédération Française de Tennis, Facim Foundation, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Havas Worldwide, Vinci, Bouygues Building International, Bouygues TP, Moët Hennessy.
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Recently in the press
>> GROUND NOISE
- Beaux-Arts Magazine, “Spécial Livres Nature”, France, Décembre 2024
- Quand la photographie pense la forêt, p 86 to 89, by Danièle Méaux, Filigranes, France, 2024
- Sciences et Avenir, France, 2024
- GEO France, 10 pages portfolio, July 2024
- Urbanautica Magazine, Italia, May 2024
- Vostok Magazine, South Korea, March 2024
>> LES ILOTS FAROUCHES
- ARTE daily evening news, March 25th, 2024
Current or upcoming shows
>> Chapelle du Méjan-Actes Sud, Arles, France / “Ground Noise” in “40 ans du Méjan” / Dec 18, 2024 > Jan12, 2025
>> Centre d’art Curiox d’Ugine, France / “Les îlots farouches” / Sept 21 > Dec 18, 2024
>> Spaziolabo, Bologna, Italy / “Una notte, la montagna è caduta / Calamita/à” / Sept 25 > Dec 13, 2024
Curriculum vitæ
SOLO SHOWS
2024 . Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux, France
2023 . Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles (France)
2023 . Musée Lambinet, Versailles (France)
2023 . La Terrasse, Espace d’art contemporain, Nanterre (France)
2023 . Usimages, Beauvais (France)
2021 . Ajaccio Citadel (Corsica, France)
2020 . Galerie Madé, Paris (France)
2019 . L'Ill, les berges, "Indomptables", residency for the Mulhouse Biennal of Photography (France)
2018 . La Halle, Saint-Aubin-sur-mer (France)
2017 . Carré d'Art/Pole Sud, Chartres (France)
2016 . Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux (France)
2013 . Galerie Confluence, Nantes (France)
2011 . Les Photaumnales, Beauvais (France)
2011 . Biennale de photographie en Condroz (Belgium)
2011 . Fondation EDF/Espace Electra, Paris (France)
2011 . Public installation in 5 villages of the French Alps (France)
2011 . The Apartment Gallery, Oslo (Norway)
2010 . "Les Boréales, Plateforme de Création nordique", Abbaye-Aux-Dames, Caen (France)
2010 . "Vevey, Ville d'image", Vevey (Switzerland)
2010 . Peri Photographic Center, Turku (Finland)
2010 . Northern Photographic Center, Oulu (Finland)
2010 . Blue Sky Gallery, Portland (USA)
2009 . Fotohuset, Kristiansand (Norway)
2006 . Société Française de Photographie, Paris (France)
GROUP SHOWS
2024 . ”Archifoto/ Architecture en chantier”, La Chambre, Strasbourg (France)
2024 . ”Demain est un autre jour / Grande Commande Photographique BnF”, Musée Nicéphore Niépce (France)
2024 . ”Calamita/à”, M9 Museum, Mestre, Venezia (Italy)
2024 . ”La France sous leurs yeux”, Grande Commande Photographique, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
2024 . ”Calamita/à”, FAST, Treviso, (Italy)
2023 . ”10 ans / 10 photographes”, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (France)
2023 . Paris-Saclay-Paysages,
Maison de l’Architecture, Paris (France)
2022 . Paris-Saclay-Paysages, Opéra de Massy (France)
2021 . Paris-Saclay-Paysages, Chateau du Val Fleury (France)
2021 . Alt+1000 Festival (Switzerland)
2021 . "Le Génie des Lieux", La Terrasse Espace d'art contemporain, Nanterre (France)
2020 . L'Oeil de la Montagne, 2-person show with Hugues de Wurstemberger, Matemale (France)
2019 . Photo Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
2019 . Images Singulières (France)
2018 . Les Photaumnales, Beauvais (France)
2018 . Murs/Murs, Galerie Mancel, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen (France)
2018 . Galerie Taglialatella, Paris (France)
2017 . Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso (Italy)
2016 . "Calamita/à, 20 artists working on the Vajont catastrophy", Materià Gallery, Roma (Italy)
2015 . "BlueSky at 40", Portland Art Museum, Portland OR (USA)
2014 . "Période Blanche", Galerie Confluence, Nantes (France)
2014 . "66° Nord", Swedish Institute, Paris (France)
2013 . "Multiple", Galerie Confluence, Nantes (France)
2012 . "SENSE OF PLACE, European Landscape Photography", BOZAR - Brussels Center for Fine Arts, (Belgium)
2011 . "Frontiers", BoldHype Gallery, New York (USA)
2010 . "My Haven", Design Downtown, New York (USA)
2009 . Philips de Pury, "Now: Art of the 21st Century", London (UK)
2009 . Centre Pasquart, Bienne (Suisse)
2007 . Institut Français de Valencia (Espagne)
2006 . Kauno Fotografijos Dienos, Kaunas (Lituania)
2006 . Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou (China)
2006 . Les Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme (France)
2004 . Galerie Madé, Paris (France)
2004 . Festival Voies Off, Arles (France)
2004 . Forum de l’Image, Toulouse (France)
2003 . Atelier De Visu, Marseille (France)
2002 . 3ème Biennale d’Art Photographique et Visuel, Liège (Belgium)
2002 . Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
MONOGRAPHS
2024 . Seconde Peau, Filigranes (France)
2023 . Ground Noise, Actes Sud (France)
2018 . Kola, Editions Loco (France)
2017 . Accès Réservé, Ardi-Photographies (France)
2014 . Les Chapieux, Géographie d'un secret, Actes Sud (France)
2011 . Du Torrent au Courant - des barrages et des hommes en Savoie, Actes Sud (France)
2010 . Máze, essay by Awen Jones, Photolucida (USA)
2005 . Un mince vernis de réalité, essay by Michel Poivert, Filigranes (France)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 . Grant from "Radioscopie de la France" documentary photography, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
2019 . Grant from "Robert Bosch Stiftung/Reporters in the Field" (Germany)
2018 . Winner of "9PH, photographie et image contemporaine, Ecole Urbaine de Lyon" award, Lyon (France)
2018 . Shortlisted for the Prix Niépce (France)
2012 . Grant for Documentary Photography from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (France)
2010 . Grant from the DRAC (Direction Régionale pour l’Action Culturelle, France)
2010 . New York Photo Festival Book Award, Finalist, New-York (USA)
2009 . Winner of 1st prize "People-Culture", International Photography Awards (USA)
2009 . Winner of the Critical Mass Book Award, Photolucida (USA)
2009 . PhotoforumPrize/Centre Pasquart, Finalist, Bienne (Switzerland)
2008 . ITS photo contest, Finalist, Trieste (Italy)
2007 . Winner of PEEK contest, Art+Commerce (USA)
2006 . 28th "Bourse du Talent Photographie.com", Finalist (France)
2005 . Winner of Kodak Dotation (France)
2005 . Grant from the DRAC (Direction Régionale pour l’Action Culturelle, France)
PUBLISHED PORTFOLIOS, COLLECTIVE BOOKS & PRESS REVIEWS
2024 . Calamita/à, an investigation into the Vajont catastrophe, Fw:Books (Netherlands)
2024 . La France sous leurs yeux, Editions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
2023 . Le Monde, December 7th (France)
2023 . XXI magazine n°62, 6-pages portfolio (France)
2023 . We Demain magazine, n°41, 16-pages portfolio (France)
2023 . Le Journal des Arts, September (France)
2023 . L’Intervalle, September (France)
2023 . Réponses Photo, September (France)
2023 . The British Journal of Photography, July (UK)
2023 . Les Others, Hors-Série 10 ans (France)
2022 . Photographie contemporaine & anthropocène, Danièle Méaux, Filigranes (France)
2022 . Arquitectura de los pantanos, Eduard Callis Freixas, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
2021 . Commons&Sense (Japan)
2021 . Itinéraires, texts by Fabien Ribéry and Sébastien Berlendis, Loco Editions (France)
2021 . Le Matin Dimanche (Switzerland)
2021 . Le Temps (Switzerland)
2021 . Beside (Canada)
2020 . National Geographic Traveler, 3-pages portfolio (China)
2020 . Esquire Russia (Russia)
2020 . The Barents Observer (Norway)
2020 . Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche, 4-pages portfolio (Germany)
2020 . 50 ans de Photographie Française de 1970 à nos jours, Michel Poivert, Editions Textuel (France)
2020 . MARE magazine, 19-pages portfolio with a text by Viktor Yerofeyev (Germany)
2020 . A°2020 Magazine de l'Anthropocène, Ecole Urbaine de Lyon, 12-pages portfolio (France)
2019 . L'intervalle : "Kola, Péninsule secrète", by Fabien Ribéry (France)
2019 . Les formes de l’enquête, Danièle Méaux & Pauline J. Barroso, Septentrion/Presses universitaires (France)
2018 . Les Others, numéro 8 (France)
2018 . Le Moniteur Architecture AMC (France)
2018 . SLATE, (France)
2018 . Il Post (Italy)
2018 . Paysageur (France)
2018 . Colta (Russie)
2017 . Libération (France)
2016 . The Walking Mountain, collective book, Calamita/à (Italy)
2015 . Corriere della Sera / Io Donna,9-pages portfolio (Italy)
2015 . National Geographic Traveler, 8-pages portfolio (China)
2015 . Ain't Bad Magazine, "From Here on" (USA)
2015 . Perspectives on place, theory and practice in landscape photography, Jesse A.P. Alexander, Bloomsbury (UK)
2014 . The Daily Telegraph (UK)
2014 . Esquire (Russia)
2014 . Modern Farmer (USA)
2014 . Lonely Planet Magazine (France)
2014 . TGV Magazine (France)
2014 . A nous Paris (France)
2014 . Télérama (France)
2014 . Le Figaro (France)
2014 . Modern Farmer (USA)
2013 . Stand N°4 (USA)
2013 . L'image du Sapmi II, Örebro University, Sweden
2013 . Ain't Bad N°6 (USA)
2012 . Photo+, Korea
2012 . Capricious Magazine, “Water Issue” (USA)
2012 . Libération (France)
2012 . Connaissance des Arts N°29 (France)
2012 . Le Soir, Belgium
2012 . SENSE OF PLACE, European Landscape Photography, BOZAR BOOKS + Hannibal & Prestel (Belgium)
2012 . Q’avez-vous fait de la photographie ?, Actes Sud / Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (France)
2011 . DWELL Magazine (USA)
2011 . Réponses Photo (France)
2011 . FK Magazine (Latvia)
2011 . D’A/d’Architectures Guide (France)
2011 . Le Soir (Belgium)
2011 . KATALOG, Journal of The Brandts Museum of Photography, Odense (Denmark)
2011 . L'Alpe, Editions Glenat (France)
2011 . Alpes Magazine (France)
2011 . Ruby, Otherworldliness, Gestalten Editions (Germany)
2010 . Design Bureau Magazine (USA)
2010 . The New Yorker online (USA)
2010 . Photo Eye, review by Jonathan Blaustein (USA)
2010 . Monthly Photography (Korea)
2010 . Tendencias (Spain)
2010 . Turun Sanomat (Finland)
2010 . Vogue Korea (Korea)
2010 . Photographer Magazine (Ukraine)
2010 . Avant-Garde Life Magazine (India)
2010 . The Independent, once every week between Dec 2009 & Jan 2010 (UK)
2009 . Vision Magazine (China)
2009 . NOW, Art of the 21st Century, Phillips de Pury & Company catalogue (UK)
2009 . No Magazine (Norway)
2009 . The Collector's guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation (USA)
2008 . Madame Figaro Voyage (Japan)
2008 . Vision Magazine (China)
2007 . Capricious Magazine (USA)
2006 . Ruby Mag (Argentina)
2005 . Photo Nouvelles magazine (France)
2005 . Liberation (France)
2005 . Infra-Mince magazine, Actes Sud Editions (France)
COLLECTIONS
. Collection du département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
. Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP, France)
. Neuflize OBC Collection (France)
. Société Française de Photographie (France)
. Portland Art Museum (USA)
. Archives Départementales du Conseil Général de Savoie (France)
. Artothèque de Pessac (France)
. Artothèque du Lot (France)
. Collection de l’Imagerie, Lannion (France)
. Fonds d’Art Contemporain de la ville de Nanterre (France)
. Collezione FAST - Foto Archivio Storico Trevigiano della Provincia di Treviso (Italy)
. Collections of ARDI (France)
. Collections of the Musée de la Fédération Française de Tennis (France)
. Private collections (Europe, USA)
ONLINE INTERVIEWS
. France Inter, “La Terre au Carré”, (September 2023, France)
. France Inter, “La Terre au Carré” (February 2023, France)
. Slate (France)
. France Culture, "Les Carnets de la Création" (France)
. France Culture, "La Vignette" (France)
. Public Radio International (USA)
. FK Magazine (Latvia)
. Radio Aligre (France)
. The Independent (UK)
. Urbanautica (Italy)
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, GRADUATION JURY
. Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), Mulhouse
. Ecole de Condé, Paris
. Spéos, Paris
. Atelier de Sèvres, Paris
. Centre d'Arts plastiques et visuels, Lille
. Section Arts plastiques du Lycée de Sèvres