Lives and works between Paris (France) and Itacaré (Brazil)
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Galerie Caroline O’breen
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Studio Artera
45/47 rue d'Hauteville
75010 Paris
France
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After studying languages, Elsa Leydier (1988, France) entered the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 2012. She graduated in 2015, and now lives between Itacaré (Brazil) and Paris (France).
In her photographic work, she aims to interrogate images that are used to define iconic places and territories, and tries to show them from other points of view, through the prism of alternative and lesser stories. In the latest years, she has been working on a long-term project about ecofeminism, 'The Disobediences'.
In 2020, Elsa Leydier was one of the laureates of the French national Photographic commission Image 3.0, and for the Mentorat Des Filles de la Photo. In 2019, she won the Prize Maison Ruinart Paris Photo 2019 and was one of the winners of the Dior Photography Award for Young Talents.
Her work has been shown in several group shows, among them Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles, Month of Photo LA, in Le Réverbère Gallery, Chez Agnès b., Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery, among others, and in solo shows in Colombia, The USA, The Netherlands, Portugal and France.
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Fisheye Award 2023
Finalist
Territoire(s) 4
Finalist
Residency Hangar 2022
Barcelone, Spain
Dahinden - Photo Climat Award 2021
Finalist
Mentorat Les Filles de la Photo 2020 - 2021
Laureate
Photographic National Commission Image 3.0
With CNAP, Ministery of Culture and Musée du Jeu de Paume
Laureate
FOAM Talents 2020
Finalist
Encontros da Imagem Emergentes Award 2020
Laureate
FOAM Talents 2019
Finalist
Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo Prize 2019
Laureate
Dior Photography Award for Young Talents 2019
Laureate for ENSP
HSBC Prize 2018
Finalist
Residency Hameau des Baux 2018
Baux de Provence, France
Residency Alliance Française de Bogotá 2017
Colombia
Residency Jardim Suspenso 2016
Favela de Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residency EAVerão / Parque Lage 2016
Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Olympus/ENSP Award 2013
1st Prize
SOLO SHOWS
2023
The Disobediences
Caroline O'Breen galley
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022
Heatwave
With Prix de la Maison Ruinart
Okura Hotel
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
Transatlántica [Emergentes Award 2020]
Festival Encontros da Imagem
Maus Hábitos
Porto, Portugal
Transatlántica
Rencontres Photographiques de Lorient
Galerie du Faouëdic
Lorient, France
2020
Heatwave
with Prix de la Maison Ruinart
Art Genève
Geneva, Switzerland
Heatwave
with Prix de la Maison Ruinart
ARCOmadrid
Madrid, Spain
Transatlántica
Caroline O’Breen gallery
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Transatlántica
Intervalle Gallery
Paris, France
Transatlántica
With Résonance of Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Poltred
Lyon, France
Paris Photo Fair 2019
with Galerie Intervalle
Grand Palais
Paris, France
Heatwave
with Prix de la Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo 2019
Grand Palais
Paris, France
2018
Like a Thunderstorm Over a Landscape
ATA
San Francisco, USA
2017
Plátanos con platino
Alliance Française de Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
GROUP SHOWS
2023
UNSEEN Photo Fair
with galerie Caroline O'Breen
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prix Fisheye de la Création Visuelle 2023
Festival InCadaqués
Cadaqués, Spain
UP!
with YOTA, Ateliers Klandestin and Forest
République, Paris, France
No Caminho dos sonhos
With Coletiva Arte Feminista
Espaço Travessia
Instituto Nise da Silveira
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art Rotterdam
With galerie Caroline O'Breen
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022
IMAGE 3.0
National photographic commission
With CNAP, Ministry of Culture and Musée du Jeu de Paume
Le Cellier, Jeu de Paume outside-the-walls
Reims, France
2021
Homéostasie
Festival Photo Climat
Maison des Arts de Créteil
Créteil, France
Prix Dahinden / Photo Climat
Festival Photo Climat
Quais de Seine
Paris, France
Les Expérimentales
With Les Filles de la Photo and Photo Saint Germain
Espace des Femmes
Paris, France
System Echoes
Curated by Florent Basiletti
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz
Arles, France
100% Sorties d’écoles
Grande Halle de La Villette
Paris, France
Pictures For Purpose
Atelier Noua
Bodø, Norway
UNSEEN Photo Fair
With galerie Caroline O'Breen
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020
Les Mauvaises Herbes Résisteront
Curated by Alice Santiago
CACN Centre d’Art – Espace Villary
Nîmes, France
Paris Experiences Photo X RATP
Paris metro stations
Paris, France
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020
with Prix de la Maison Ruinart
Hosoo gallery
Kyoto, Japan
Art Paris Art Fair
with Galerie Intervalle
Grand Palais
Paris, France
Unseen Photo Fair [canceled]
with Galerie Intervalle
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paris Photo Fair [canceled]
with Galerie Intervalle
Grand Palais, Paris, France
Genesis
Encontros da Imagem Festival
Braga, Portugal
100% [canceled]
Grande Halle de La Villette
Paris, France
Cell Signals
with Answers Without Words
SF CameraWork
San Francisco, USA
2019
Dior – The Art of Color
Kosmo, Neuilly, France
Dior – The Art of Color
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles
Arles, France
What’s Going on in Brazil?
Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles
Arles, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show
Month of Photo LA
Arena 1 Gallery
Santa Monica, USA
Wall
curated by The Smell of Dust
FotoHaus
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles
Arles, France
Fotografia, Amor e Luta
with Revista Old
Salvador, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba & Porto Alegre, Brazil
Retour de résidence
Hameau des Baux
Baux de Provence, France
2018
Atlas of Forms
Soft Power Palace Festival
Stuttgart, Germany
Photographie émergente France / Brésil
Paris Photo
Galerie Collection Privée
Paris, France
Unseen Photo Fair
with galerie Intervalle
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Answers Without Words
Cascade Paragon Gallery / Columbia River Correctional Institution
Portland, USA
Nature Within
Galerie Prints
London, UK
Novos Protagonismos
Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem
Santos, Brazil
Du bonheur et rien d’autre
L’Atelier du Midi
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Arles, France
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA
curated by The Smell of Dust
FotoHaus
Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Arles, France / Berlin, Germany
Voyage à Nantes
With Festival Circulation(s)
Nantes, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show
Month of Photo LA
Los Angeles, USA
Territorios Imaginarios
PHotoEspaña
Madrid, Spain
Festival Circulation(s)
Le Cent-Quatre
Paris, France
The Earth Issue
The House of St Barnabas
London, UK
2017
Foto Féminas Screening
Just Another Photo Festival
Kolkata, India
Braços Verdes e Olhos Cheios de Asas
at the invitation of Revista OLD
Festival Valongo
Santos, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA
curated by The Smell of Dust
São Paulo, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA
curated by The Smell of Dust
FotoHaus
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Arles, France
2016
Fuori Serranda
LO.FT,
Lecce, Italy
Jardim Suspenso
Morro da Babilônia
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Réserves
L’Atelier du Midi
Arles, France
Interstices
Festival MAP Toulouse
Toulouse, France
Échange de vues / Conversations Photographiques d’Olympus
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
Paris, France
2015
Histoires parallèles
FRAC PACA
Marseille, France
Interstices
ENSP 2015 Graduate Students Exhibition
Galerie Agnès b.
Paris, France
Olympus engage une Conversation Photographique
Photographic Conversation with Paolo Woods
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Couvent Saint Césaire
Arles, France
Work In Progress
Église Saint Julien
Arles, France
Vigilance
With Voies Off
Palais de l’Archevêché
Arles, France
OFF the Wall ON the Walls
Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation
Arles, France
Échappées Belles
Palais de l’Archevêché
Arles, France
La Double vie des images
Galerie Le Réverbère
Lyon, France
2014
J’ai sondé les actes et les rêves
L’Atelier du Midi
Arles, France
A Process
curated by Der Greif
Höhmannhaus Gallery
Augsburg, Germany
WHY? Part 1
a collaboration with Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
Aréna Gallery
Arles, France
Alirandu
L’Atelier du Midi
Arles, France
2013
Décartographie
Musée de la Camargue
Salin de Giraud, France
Décartographie
With Marseille Provence 2013
Temple d’Arles
Arles, France
La Nuit je mens
Hôtel Arlatan
Arles, France