French photographers – AlternativePhotography.com

Johannes Schmidt

Johannes Schmidt creates cameraless photograms & lumenprints with plants & historic papers, blending chemistry, chance & surreal beauty. Stunning colours, textures & subconscious connections. From: Born in Germany, lives in Nantes, France Shows: Chemigrams, lumenprints, toned cyanotypes Johannes Schmidt is a self-taught amateur. A pinhole workshop brought him in a darkroom, where he later discovered his passion for cameraless photography. He became fascinated by light, supports, photosensitive matter and photochemistry, … Read more

Wisteria

Wisteria, a self-taught artist based in Angers, France, works with cyanotype, merging digital practices, alternative processes, and abandoned landscapes. From: Angers, France Shows: Cyanotypes Wisteria is a self-taught artist based in Angers, France. She works primarily with cyanotype and enjoys experimenting with materials and surfaces, combining digital practices with alternative photographic processes. Over the years, she explored abandoned places and created mirror effects in her work. Although she began exhibiting, … Read more

Stéphanie Marseille

Stéphanie Marseille, a French craftswoman explores cyanotypes using flora to express herself. Using washi paper she turns her work into lampshades. From: Ermont, France. Shows: Cyanotypes. Stéphanie Marseille is a French artist and craftswoman, living near Paris. Once a freelance journalist, she used to love listening to people and writing their stories. Now, she happily explores the magic of cyanotypes to create a dream world, where plants and flowers from … Read more

Nina Adler

Nina Adler, a self-taught photographer, born in Denmark, but lives in France takes photographs from her travels and prints them in the cyanotype or vandyke process or makes xerox liths of them. From: Montcuq, South West France Born: Denmark Shows: Cyanotypes, Vandykes and Xerox lithography. Nina Adler is a Danish-born self-taught photographer who chose to live in a village in S.W. France 20 years ago. She is using digital cameras … Read more

Sophie Gotti

Sophie Gotti is working in handcoloured cyanotypes, she lives in France and has been exploring alternative photography for the last 15 years. From: Marseille, France. Shows: Handcolored cyanotypes. Sophie Gotti is a French photographer living in the south of France. She became interested in alternative processes 15 years ago and started out working in Polaroid and FUJI films and LOMO cameras. She worked for many years exclusively with her HOLGA … Read more

Fabien Cayere

Fabien Cayere from the Basque area in France, shares his Gum bichromates printed on wood, sometimes with pinhole, sometimes hand coloured. From: Anglet (South west France), Basque Country, France. Shows: Gum bichromates, pinholes, hand coloured. Fabien Cayere lives near Biarritz in the French basque country and near the Atlantic ocean. He learn argentic process during his graphic design study in 1992. Fabien spends most of his time in his workshop … Read more