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

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 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, fashion photography and cartes blanches.
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"The series highlights the urgency of climate change through the use of abstract negative scans. By using the end and beginning of the film roll, it evokes our confrontation with time, from the beginning of the world to the programmed and accelerated end of it Once printed on paper, these colored spectra mix with glass plates hand-painted by the artist. The drips in cold or warm tones thus seem to reveal the vagaries of our current events. from intense heat with red and orange tones to sharp cold with blue and purple tones Melting ice, intense drought, torrential storms, are all patterns that everyone can glimpse in these mirrors of a contemporary world made of. increasingly marked contrasts. Camille Merklen, Galerie Porte B

Marguerite Bornhauser

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