Rêverie industrielle (Hambourg), Circa 2025

Irène Jonas  

Irène Jonas is a photographer and sociologist. Born in 1957, she lives in Paris and in Le Guilvinec in southern Finistère. She has been part of the Revealing Agency since 2016.

Through his jobs as a sociologist and photographer, writing and images have always been present in his professional life. However, she freed herself from sociological writing and photographic reporting, in order to develop a form of personal expression. For the past ten years, she has focused her personal and artistic research on plastic photography.

Personal Exhibitions

2021- Rosa Bonheur, Reminiscences, Château de Rosa Bonheur, Ile-de-France Region

- Memoirs of the countryside, in cycle Memories and Ruralities, the Field of the Impossibles, Perche-en-Nocé

-The Thickness Temps, guest of honor at the Les Femmes s'exposent festival, Houlgate.

- The suitcase in the closet, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris

- West, Art-Net Gallery, Rennes

- Cilka, Pocket Galerie, Perche-en-Nocé

2019- The Phantom Vessel, Rennes Opera House and Ar Gwarlan Concert-projection, Rennes Opera House

- Cilka, Site Saint-Sauveur, Rocheservière

2018 - FotoMasterclass Vu 'Prize, Fotofever, Paris

2017 - The end of the red man, Wasraw Photo Days, Warsaw

- In the shade of fishing, Man and the Sea Photo Festival, Guilvinec

- "Russia", Festival Regards, Alençon

- "On the road: Kazakhstan", Les Nuits de Pierrevert

2016 - “Childhood", European Photography Festival, Milan

2014 - Rio, Little Big Galerie, Paris

Collective exhibitions

2021 - And after, Photo Festival Baie de Saint Brieuc

2019 - Perspectives Lebanon-France, Phot'Aix Festival, Aix-en-Provence

2018 - Contrenuit, The Eye Sees, Voies-off Festival, Arles

- Contrenuit, Le Pangolin, Marseille

2016 - RDV-Image, Strasbourg

2015 - Pavlodar Museum, Kazakhstan

2014 - Thatanos, Biennale de Nancy

2011 - Maubert Gallery, Paris

Residences, prices and carte blanche

2021 - Writing and photography residency: Château de Rosa Bonheur, in the residences of the Ile-de-France region

2020 - 2021 - Country memoirs, Writing and photography residency at Champ des Impossibles, Perche

2020 - Carte Blanche for the 2021 calendar - Société Furic Marée

2019 - Carte blanche opera de Rennes

2018 - Price of the Foto Masterclass Vu '

Bibliography

Rosa Bonheur and Irène Jonas, Reminiscences - to be published in 2022

Campaign Memories (Sociological essay and photographs), Filigranes Éditions, Paris 2021

Twilight, July Editions, Rennes 2020

Sleep, she says, Editions Arnaud Bizalion, 2018

As a sociologist, Irène Jonas has published numerous articles and participated in collective works). She has just completed a photographic and sociological research on the booksellers of Paris (art. In Images du travail - travail des images). She has collaborated with the French Museum of Photography and carried out studies in visual sociology: "And yet they photograph" (the Part of Women and the Ministry of Culture - 2020), "Crisis of photojournalism and health of photographers" (For SAIF and SCAM –- 2019), and published “Death of the family photo? From film to digital ", L'Harmattan, 2010.