MARYLISE VIGNEAU

Raised in a conventional Parisian family, Marylise Vigneau developed an early taste for peeping through keyholes and climbing walls. Her “Compared Literature” thesis, at la Sorbonne, was about cities as characters in Russian and Central-European novels; where and when the clearest narrative gets lost in a heady, haunting uncertainty. Despite her fascination with literature, over time her mode of expression has become photography, without her knowing precisely why - may be the mix of precision, immediacy, truth and lies which is behind every image. What attracts her first and foremost is how human beings are affected by borders both physical and mental, this fugitive space where an unexpected, bold and fragile act or glimpse of freedom can arise. Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards 2021, professional competition, portfolio category/ Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnak Award 2020 / Nominated for the Pictet Prize 2019 / Shortlisted at the Felix Schoeller Awards 2019 “Innocent Prowls through Pakistan” / Winner of the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2018. "About Time or the impossibility of an Island" / Winner of “New Visions”, Cortona on the Move 2018 / Winner of the “Fotopreises Museums(ER)leben” 2018 / Shortlisted for Direct Look Photo Contest organized by FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography at the Sakharov center “The Last of the Companeros” / Finalist for prix “ImageSingulières, Médiapart 2018” “Article 19/ Finalist for The International Women Photographers Award (IWPA) 2018 “Article 19” / Finalist for Exibart Street Contest, 2018