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 will be shown in Arco (Lisbonne and Madrid), at the Galerie Porte B (until April 20th), the MEP and the Galerie Sinople in Paris. She will be back to Les Rencontres d'Arles next July at the Arles Antique Musuem, within her latest 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 won the Emerging Photographer of the Year Award 2020 at Photo London in partnership with Nikon Northern Europe. Besides her institutional practice, she regularly collaborates for medias and brands for portraits and fashion photography. In 2021, The Grand Palais gives her Carte Blanche to follow the renovation of the site during four years, which will give rise to a publication as well as an exhibition. Marguerite Bornhauser most often accompanies her photographic research with editorial work. FMA le Bureau represents Marguerite in fashion, luxury, Cartes Blanches and special projects for brands.
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