France – Reims
The French photographer transfigures everyday life in finely studied settings where bodies, objects and fashion accessories take on a touching and emotional dimension.
Some of her works emphasise the purity and organic nature of the materials used in the fashion industry, while others capture with strength and delicacy human fissures and landscapes stripped of relief. There’s something simple, bold and moving about Annabelle Foucher’s images that immediately catch the eye.
The 29-year-old artist, based in Reims, won the Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode at the 25th edition in 2023 for her series Distanciation sociale, Empreinte and Tako Tsubo (named after heart failure, also known as broken heart syndrome in Japanese). This body of images reveals the full scope of his thematic, poetic and technical approach, with its interplay of light, artistic blurs, tight framing, singular faces and organic bodies, scratched by life and bruised love.
Between Simplicity and Fragility
Annabelle Foucher reveals the underlying truth, the beauty of the ordinary, the silence of the world, the nostalgia of the infinite. Her compositions succeed in marking time past and time unfolding, in dosing and filling the void between her subjects and spaces.
While accessories play an important role in her unadorned environments, the traces of human activity are also part of her leitmotifs. The photographer captures fragments of the memory of a protagonist who has surreptitiously disappeared from the frame, such as a comb hanging from her hair or panties discarded on a screen.
© Annabelle Foucher, Empreinte
Behind the lens, Annabelle Foucher records all those moments that manifest our existence in this ephemeral world. A powerful gaze that she also instils in her commercial projects, such as “Cadillac,” her new rough-and-ready series dedicated to a car brand, where she stages her signature models between luxury and voluptuousness.