ABOUT | eliemonferier

ELIE monferier

Elie Monferier is a self-taught French photographer born in 1988. In 2019, he self-published his first hand made photobook, Sang Noir, winner of Premio al Mejor Libro de Fotografía del Año PHotoESPAÑA 2020. His second photobook, Fable, was published by Origini Edizioni in 2021. He was recently exhibited in 2021 at gallery SAGE Paris, at Festival Circulations, at Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation during les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles and at Les promenades photographiques de Vendome.

"There is in the photographic gesture something unfinished, insufficient and incomplete, which breaks the discursive logic and artifices with which the world become acceptable. To photograph is to deny and foil all morals, all beliefs, all justifications that would want to contain the vital impetus, the organic thrill brought to its most cruel expression. I make images but I only consider them as a pretext for this possibility of existence."

Represented by Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin

Awards

2022 Finalist Premio al Mejor Libro de Fotografia del Ano PhotoESPANA 2022 / Sacre

2021 Finalist BUP Book Award - Blow Up Press / Insula

2020 Winner of Premio al Mejor Libro de Fotografía del Año PHotoESPAÑA 2020 / category self-published photobook / Sang Noir

2019 Finalist Brussel Street Photography Festival / Forever Young

2019 Honorable Mention ASPAwards : personal research / Sang Noir

2018 Finalist Street Photography Awards Lensculture / Forever Young

Books and other publications

2022 May You Stay / Pierre Bessard - L'Atelier Risographique

2022 Sacre / handmade and self-edited photobook

2021 Fable / Origini Edizioni