289 - Clémentine Schneidermann

Clémentine Schneidermann is a French photographer living and working between Paris and South Wales. She recently completed a practice-based PhD at the University of South Wales, Cardiff entitled Photographing Children in a Social Context: Narratives and Strategies (2021). Clémentine works on long term projects & commissions and is interested in new creative practices in social documentary photography. Her approach is collaborative and playful, with an interest in communities and childhood, as well as our relationship to identity and culture. She is a co-founder of Bleak Fabulous with Charlotte James, a  photography-based creative studio working across different disciplines with an emphasis on communities and collaboration.

On episode 289, Clémentine discusses, among other things:

• How having a camera made it acceptable to stare at people
• Studying in Switzerland… and then Newport, Wales
• Falling in love with Wales immediately
• Her book project, I Call Her Lisa Marie
• Her project Ffasiwn
• Collaborating with kids… and Charlotte James
• Getting involved with Alexander MacQueen
• Her forthcoming book marking ten year of Ffasiwn
• Bleak Fabulous - trying to create stable income
• Winning the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
• Work she has done in Greenland
• Her other collaboration: The Emmas

Referenced:

• Mary Ellen Mark
• Sebastian Bruno
• Bruce Davidson
• David Barnes
• Ken Grant
• Paul Reas
• Lina Hashim
• Jacob Aue Sobol

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