Bénédicte Van der Maar
Bénédicte Van der Maar (born October 27, 1968 in Paris ) is a French photo artist. She lives and works in Paris.
biography
Bénédicte Van der Maar received her first photography lessons from a friend and student of Jeanloup Sieff . She photographs people and situations in New York, Italy, Israel and later also in India. Her work “Accumulations” was discovered by the Parisian gallery Le Simoun and presented in a solo exhibition in 2007. In 2008 the daily newspaper France-Soir published one of their photographs under the title “The New Yorker”.
Since 2008 she has been combining her experiences in studio photography with her travel experiences in order to approach the subject of the fragility of the world as a photographer. The conceptual photo series “Fragiles” was exhibited during the “Nuit de la photographie Contemporaine” in Paris. The focus of her work as a photographer is the question of which place women occupy in changing societies and in different cultures. In 2010 she went to Haiti and photographs the daily struggle for survival in the Cité Soleil . Doctors Without Borders (MSF-Medicins sans frontieres) publish their work under the title: "The Children of Cholera". In 2011 she followed the “ Little Buddha ” into the Nepalese jungle with her series of photographs . The magazine Paris-Match published its photo report.
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Bénédicte Van der Maar moves with her photography series “Fragile” and “Never Ending” in the tradition of French photography by Robert Doisneau , Willy Ronis and Henri Cartier-Bresson , people in the various everyday situations they encounter during and after Second World War were exposed, showed. Van der Maar developed this way of photography further by concentrating on certain socially critical topics. In her work she records the political, social and cultural issues by showing, for example, cultural oppression as well as the exploitation and enslavement of women and children.
Exhibitions (excerpt)
- 2007 What Else, solo exhibition at Galerie Le Simoun, Paris.
- 2008 Accumulations Nuit de la Photographie Contemporaine, Paris.
- 2008 New York, group exhibition Galerie Memmi, Paris
- 2009 You exhibit for life, group exhibition, Hotel de Ville, Paris
- 2010 Women, Women, solo exhibition, Le Paname, Paris
- 2010 Fragile Sculpture, solo exhibition, Maubert Gallery, Paris
- 2012 Travel Portraits and “Fragiles” at the Night of Contemporary Photography, Paris
- 2012 Absurde, ArtPhoto, Paris
- 2013 ArtPhoto Champs Elysées, Paris, France.
- 2013 Lux Festival, Le Touquet, France.
- 2014 The Woman, group exhibition, Versus & Versus Gallery, Paris.
- 2015 Solo exhibition, Grands Moulins de Pantin, Paris.
- 2015 Good Earth, group exhibition, COP21 - GoodPlanet Foundation, Earth Gallery, Paris.
literature
- France-Soir, 12 juin 2008 (French)
- Little Buddha , Article (French)
- photobis, Nuit de la Photographie Contemporaine (French)
- Bénédicte Van der Maar at the Galerie le Simoun (French)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haiti unprepared in face of resurgent cholera ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Le Simoun Gallery
- ^ Accumulations, Nuit de la Photographie Contemporaine
- ↑ paris.fr
- ↑ Galerie Maubert - les artistes ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Benedicte Van der Maar - Versus & Versus
- ↑ Good Earth - Earth Gallery ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van der Maar, Bénédicte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |