Marguerite Bornhauser is a photographer based in Paris. After studying literature and journalism, she joined the &Eacute;cole Nationale Sup&eacute;rieure de la Photographie in Arles, where she graduated. Since her first personal institutional exhibition held at the Maison Europ&eacute;enne de la photographie (MEP) in 2019, her work has been exhibited in different museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. In 2020, she won the Photo London's Emerging Photographer of the Year Award. In 2021, the Grand Palais gave her a carte blanche to look at the renovation site for the next four years, which will be the subject of a book as well as an exhibition. In 2022 she was nominated as guest of honor for Paris Photo. She published various books : 'Plastic Colors' (2017), '8', and 'Red Harvest' by Poursuite Editions (2019), and 'When Black is burned' (2023) with Simple Editions. In 2024, Marguerite's work has been shown in Arco (Lisbonne and Madrid), at the Galerie Porte B., the MEP and the Galerie Sinople in Paris. She was part of Les Rencontres d'Arles in July at the Arles Antique Musuem, with her residency with INRAP. Besides her institutional practice, she regularly collaborates for medias and brands for portraits and fashion photography.

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Marguerite Bornhauser was born in 1989.
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After studying literature at the Sorbonne, she joined the National School of Photography in Arles (ENSP), from which she graduated in 2015. Her work has been the subject of various exhibitions, notably at the European House of Photography (MEP) in Paris in 2019 but also in the streets of Cincinnati in the United States, at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles in 2019, during the Festival Planche(s) Contact in Deauville or at BETC and with Agn&egrave;s B.
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Marguerite Bornhauser most often accompanies her photographic research with editorial work.
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Her first self-publishing book, Plastic Colors, was selected in 2015 among the 10 finalists of the First Book Award by the publishing house MACK. It was published in 2017. His second book "8" was published in 2018 at Poursuite. She published her third book, Red Harvest, still at Poursuite during Paris Photo 2019.
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Besides her artistic practice, she regularly collaborates with the press for portraits, photo-reportage or fashion photography.&nbsp;

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Marguerite Bornhauser

Marguerite Bornhauser&rsquo;s artistic vision inspires brands and institutions, blending her bold use of color with commissioned work. Since her 2019 solo show at the MEP, her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Grand Palais and Rencontres d'Arles. Winner of the Photo London Emerging Photographer Award in 2020, she also collaborates with media and brands on portraits, fashion, and cartes blanches.
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March 2020. Here we are confined between four walls with the only light coming from the window. Reinventing the objects that surround us and making them pictorial, diverting them, between fortuitous scenes and constructed scenes. Playing with the light which every day passes through the windows, emerges, bounces off the walls, the parquet floor, on the skins, then goes out.  Immersed in the closed doors of this apartment, the images are intimate, with tight framing and harsh lighting. The trivial is transformed into a strange field of contradictory materials, the strainer serves as a light filter to sculpt a face, the plants become sensual materials, cast shadows and touches of color to constitute an original world.

Marguerite Bornhauser

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