Arriving at the forefront of the arts scene in 1995 with characters posing in an urban environment, Valérie Jouve carries out rigorous work on the theme of the city, a territory that she describes as “extraordinary”. After discovering photography during her studies in sociology, she studied at the school of photography in Arles. She usually uses a heavy view camera, spending a lot of time with her “characters” and not taking many images, which she presents in large format, to scale, to create a face-to-face encounter with the spectator. Among her influences...
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