La valise rose, 2023

Sophie Moisan  

Sophie Moisan is a photographer. She lives and works in Paris, France.

Her photographic approach has been built over the years around a deeply personal vision, imbued with emotion and intimacy. Inspired by impressionism, she explores a photography that does not seek to faithfully reproduce reality, but to translate the sensitive perception of it. Blur, alterations, deformations of the image become a language, a way to evoke states of mind, memories, inner resonances.

Her relationship with photography is rooted very early. As a child, she discovers her mother's work, a photojournalist, who had set up her photo lab at home. The hours spent developing images under the red light of the laboratory constitute foundational memories for her. At the age of seven, she takes up a first photographic device. Her very first image — a trivial, almost absurd photograph — already marks an intuitive and conceptual relationship to the image.

Sophie Moisan then trains at the École Supérieure de Réalisations Audiovisuelles (ESRA). She first focuses on the world of advertising and audiovisual creation, working as a copywriter/concept writer within agencies such as RSCG Havas and Dassas Jaglin, then as a screenwriter for France Télévisions.

A personal event marks her finally back to her first practice: art photography in limited edition prints. She fully engages in it then, not as a simple visual medium, but as a space for inner exploration.

For Sophie Moisan, photographing consists as much of exploring the inside as of capturing the outside. She transforms the image from the moment of shooting, introducing blurs, deformations, and fragments to translate the fragile poetry of simple and everyday moments. The rain, omnipresent in her work, becomes a sensitive material: ephemeral drops, possible tears, traces of melancholy or an unspeakable happiness.

Her images invite the viewer to project their own memory, to inhabit the image with their story.