Contact : florencedelle@hotmail.be
Born in 1971, Florence D’elle is a self-taught Belgian author-photographer who would have loved to write from the time she was a teenager.
She discovered her love of photography by chance while photographing two friends.
In 2010, she won the Gold Medal for Fine Art Photography at the Hyogo Art Museum in Kobe Japan. This was followed by two series, ‘Les Secrètes’ and ‘Re Birth’.
2015 saw her life turned upside down following the death of her partner, and her entire photographic language was turned upside down. She turned to film and only historical techniques: the technique of slowness became the medium for a new form of writing. In this way, she wrote ‘Resili O’, a personal vision of a path of resilience, the most personal, intimate and raw series she has ever written.
The use of the old camera in the slow process of large format photography gives a vital rhythm of timelessness for the artist, and becomes an extension of herself as she writes ‘Un Conte’ in the large format camera using the old technique of wet collodion in tintypes by hand. The slowness of the time devoted to this technique is inseparable from the content she wishes to create.
This tale is also her tale, her story about the place of women in fairy tales, rooted in a past that is dreamy, silent, burning, uncertain and luminous, but also subject to a certain form of violence: Pan’s labyrinth in a magical world that creates another reality in an intergenerational language. The tree is a door that opens up space. The technical imperfections for which she fell in love are part of this slow process of language keys.
Florence D’elle was then invited by the Sunnhordland Museum on the island of Halsnoy in Norway to take up a photographic residency in 2022, at which time she wrote ‘Opprinnelsen’ (‘The Origins’ in Norwegian), a work in collodion which was exhibited the following year at the Museum and which she would now like to bring to life in exhibitions and also turn to publishing.
In May 2024, she joined Agence Révélateur in Paris, an agency founded by Olivier Bourgoin, and her work can be found in galleries in Belgium, France and Mauritius, as well as in private collections.