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Created in 2012, Camera Clara Photo Award is dedicated to photographers using large format camera. It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set. The work will be assessed on its coherence, as a form as well as a content.
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Alexandra Catière
Prize winner 2024
Born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1978, Alexandra Catière currently lives and works in Paris. Trained by Irving Penn and at the ICP in New York, she creates works and prints that demonstrate an exceptional mastery of large-format photography.
Her work, which entered the collections of the BnF in 2022, has been exhibited worldwide, including in France at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum and the In Camera Gallery, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, Somerset House in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, and Paris Photo. She has received numerous awards, including the Elysée Prize in Lausanne and the BMW Prize at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Grand Commission for Photojournalism: "Radioscopie de la France."
Alexandra Catière’s borderless journey reflects her desire to reach for the universal. From the former Soviet Union to France, via the United States, this photographer makes timelessness one of the central aspects of her work. Reviving the humanist tradition, her images capture sensations and atmospheres with remarkable skill. Never limited to the genres of portraiture or reportage alone, Alexandra uses the camera as an instrument of her empathy for human nature and, particularly, for life itself.
The award-winning series Le souffle de l’être (The Breath of Being) brings together recent images as well as those from her early work 25 years ago. With profound poetic sensitivity, the images presented here embody the possibility of an elsewhere, engaging in a delicate dialogue with our soul. Alexandra’s photographs serve as bridges to inner paths, where the breath of being pulses. Her approach, both humanist and artistic, gracefully invites us to reconnect with ourselves.
Between reality and fairy tale, her work conveys the feeling of being oneself in a world that is deeper and denser than what meets the eye.