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An anthropologist by training, the reporter and photographer Françoise Spiekermeier has always been interested in the representation of the body and images of beauty in fashion, the press, art, photography, even as a war reporter when she covered the conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Her reports earned her the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents in 2001. Her work is the subject of regular exhibitions: "Chechnya, the Other Face" (Photo Month in Paris, 2002), "Chechen women" (Little Big Galerie Paris 2009, Perspektivet Museum in Trömso in Norway, 2010) ... 

Since 2009, she has focused her photographic work on the rituals of beauty worldwide, a theme she has declined in a series of documentary films for Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal + between 2011 and 2013.


Françoise Spiekermeier considers the representation of the body and beauty as the ultimate acts of resistance of the human being faced with the harshness of everyday life and sometimes with the horrors of the world.


In her book "Beauties, beauty will save the world", published in 2016 by La Martinière, bringing together more than 200 photographs, she reveals a work carried out in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Niger, India, Afghanistan and in Papua New Guinea.

Through these portraits, which are as much reminiscent of ethnographic images as fashion photos, the photographer shows the grace and individuality of each of her models.


Far from conversationalist clichés and beyond the splendor of images, it shows how ancestral aesthetic codes, while retaining their strength, spontaneously hybridize through the appropriation of "modern" objects.







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Françoise Spiekermeier thus invites us on a photographic journey that upsets our perception of beauty and testifies, in this era of global communication, to the exemplary vitality of tribal cultures.


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All artworks of Françoise Spiekermeier
Photography, Corvée d'eau, Tchétchénie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Corvée d'eau, Tchétchénie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch

$1,694

Photography, Grozny en ruines (Tchétchénie), Françoise Spiekermeier

Grozny en ruines (Tchétchénie)

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch

$1,468

Photography, Kalachnikov et scarification - Ethiopie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Kalachnikov et scarification - Ethiopie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch

$903

Photography, Peul Wodaabe et tente rose, Françoise Spiekermeier

Peul Wodaabe et tente rose

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$813

Photography, Surimpression du Touareg, Françoise Spiekermeier

Surimpression du Touareg

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$813

Photography, Le Peul Wodaabe se maquille, Françoise Spiekermeier

Le Peul Wodaabe se maquille

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$813

Photography, Peul Wodaabe au miroir et tente rose, Françoise Spiekermeier

Peul Wodaabe au miroir et tente rose

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$813

Photography, Vertical, Peul Wodaabe en tenue de danse, Françoise Spiekermeier

Vertical, Peul Wodaabe en tenue de danse

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$813

Photography, Femme Hamar au collier d'acier, Françoise Spiekermeier

Femme Hamar au collier d'acier

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch

$791

Photography, Jala, une amie pour la vie / Friends for a lifetime - Ethiopia, Françoise Spiekermeier

Jala, une amie pour la vie / Friends for a lifetime - Ethiopia

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch

$791

Photography, Grozny détruite 2 , Tchétchénie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Grozny détruite 2 , Tchétchénie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch

$1,694

Photography, Maternité de Grozny, Tchétchénie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Maternité de Grozny, Tchétchénie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch

$2,823

Photography, La vache, Grozny, Tchétchénie, Françoise Spiekermeier

La vache, Grozny, Tchétchénie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch

$3,953

Photography, Homme Hamar Ethiopie / Hamar Man Ethiopia, Françoise Spiekermeier

Homme Hamar Ethiopie / Hamar Man Ethiopia

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch

$1,016

Photography, Femme Nyangathom à jupe brodée - Ethiopie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Femme Nyangathom à jupe brodée - Ethiopie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch

$1,016

Photography, Coiffe d'argile et duvet d'autruche noir du guerrier Karo, Françoise Spiekermeier

Coiffe d'argile et duvet d'autruche noir du guerrier Karo

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch

$1,016

Photography, Bergers du bush -Ethiopie, Françoise Spiekermeier

Bergers du bush -Ethiopie

Françoise Spiekermeier

Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch

$903

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Who is the artist?

An anthropologist by training, the reporter and photographer Françoise Spiekermeier has always been interested in the representation of the body and images of beauty in fashion, the press, art, photography, even as a war reporter when she covered the conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Her reports earned her the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents in 2001. Her work is the subject of regular exhibitions: "Chechnya, the Other Face" (Photo Month in Paris, 2002), "Chechen women" (Little Big Galerie Paris 2009, Perspektivet Museum in Trömso in Norway, 2010) ... 

Since 2009, she has focused her photographic work on the rituals of beauty worldwide, a theme she has declined in a series of documentary films for Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal + between 2011 and 2013.


Françoise Spiekermeier considers the representation of the body and beauty as the ultimate acts of resistance of the human being faced with the harshness of everyday life and sometimes with the horrors of the world.


In her book "Beauties, beauty will save the world", published in 2016 by La Martinière, bringing together more than 200 photographs, she reveals a work carried out in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Niger, India, Afghanistan and in Papua New Guinea.

Through these portraits, which are as much reminiscent of ethnographic images as fashion photos, the photographer shows the grace and individuality of each of her models.


Far from conversationalist clichés and beyond the splendor of images, it shows how ancestral aesthetic codes, while retaining their strength, spontaneously hybridize through the appropriation of "modern" objects.

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Françoise Spiekermeier thus invites us on a photographic journey that upsets our perception of beauty and testifies, in this era of global communication, to the exemplary vitality of tribal cultures.

When was Françoise Spiekermeier born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1964