Born in Paris, I studied Photographic Arts in London and graduated in 2009. I now live in Brittany, France.
My work is always charged with personal experience. I use this as starting point to explore the body, rituals, tradition and memory. In particular I am interested in investigating their fragility, examining cracks or flaws to explore the boundaries of norms and expectations.
My images are often staged and I construct the scenes myself. However, darkroom experimentation allows randomness to enter. Much of my work inhabits this liminal area in between the orchestrated and the fragile but unexpected.
Exhibitions & prizes
2023 World Photo Annual, reFocus Awards.
May 2022
'Auto
Focus. A portrait of the self', Groupe show, Millepiani exhibition
space, Rome, Italy.
Nov 2014
Photography Open Salon, A retrospective selection 'Transience' and 'An eye for an ear'.
Curated by Vanja Karas.Anchorage House, London, UK.
Nov 2013
Grand prix de la decouverte: International Fine-art photography award, Paris, France.
First place award Still-life category.
Acquisition Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Jan 2012
Short-listed for the artist in residence programme at the Corinthia hotel, London, UK.
Jan 2012
‘Open Salon 2011,Transience’, Galerie Huit, Penang, Malaysia
Oct 2011
‘Carole Suety and Matthias Olmetta’, Agnes b Spitalfields, London, UK.
July 2011
‘Open Salon 2011,Transience', Galerie Huit,Arles, France.
Mar 2011
‘SNAP! 2010’, Photographic fundraiser for the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), Live auction. Canada.
Feb 2011
‘Salon Photo Prize 2011’, Matt Roberts,Vyner street, London, UK.
Oct 2010
Flash Forward Festival, Emerging Photographers from Canada,The United Kingdom and the United States.
Selected winner for the UK.
Mar 2010
‘Cream 12 A showcase of Graduate Photography Talent’, Crane Kalman Brighton, UK.
Nov 2009
NO:ID Gallery, 31 Commercial Road, London, UK. Solo show.
Oct 2009
Affordable Art Fair, Recent graduates’ exhibition, Battersea Park, London,UK.
Sept 2009
Salon’09, Matt Roberts,Vyner street, London, UK.
‘Small show, huge talent’ curated by Janice Blackburn, Sotheby’s, London, UK.
Piramal Gallery, Mumbai, India. Group exhibition, alumni of the University ofWestminster
June 2009
University ofWestminster degree show,‘Free Range’, Truman Brewery, London, UK.
Publications
March 2022
Analog Forever magazine online exhibition ‘Fabricated realities’.
Nov 2021
Artdoc magazine Issue #5 2021.
Artdoc photography magazine online exhibition 'Lens Based Art'.
2011
'Transience. Change, impermanence and the passing of time interpreted by over 100 photographers
from 34 countries'. Exhibition catalogue.
2010
Flash Forward 2010, Emerging Photographers from Canada,The United Kingdom and the United States.
Dec2009
Wallpaper Magazine. Graduate directory 2010.