MYTHOLOGIES
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
2021 May You Stay / Halogénure n°8
2019 Sang Noir / handmade and self-edited photobook
Solo exhibition
2021 Sang Noir / galerie SAGE Paris
Collective exhibition
2022 L'enfant sauvage - Bruxelles / Sacre
2022 Athens Photo Festival - Photobook Exhibition / Sacre
2022 Le Bus, Espace Culturel Mobile - Association Autres Directions, Couserans, "Tomber au monde" saison 2022 / Insula
2021 Les Promenades photographiques de Vendôme / Fable
2021 Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles / D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin avec le collectif LesAssociés
2021 Festival Circulations / Sang Noir
2019 Brussel Street Photography Festival / Forever Young
2019 FOTOHAUS / PARISBERLIN 2019 / ARLES / "Mur (s) / Mauer (n)"
Articles
Photo Doc / Interview
Fisheye / Sacre
Fisheye / Sang Noir
Fisheye / Fable
AmericanSuburbX / Sang Noir
Robin Titchener's / Sang Noir
L'intervalle - Fabien Ribéry / May You Stay
L'intervalle - Fabien Ribéry / Sacre
L'intervalle - Fabien Ribéry / Sang Noir
L'intervalle - Fabien Ribéry / Fable
5, rue du - Frédéric Martin / May You Stay
5, rue du - Frédéric Martin / Sacre
5, rue du - Frédéric Martin / Fable
Click Magazine / Sang Noir
Dodho magazine / Forever Young
Lensculture magazine / Forever Young
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."