Christine Turnauer

Christine Turnauer began her career as a professional photographer in Paris. From 1974 to 1976, she was assistant to Frank Horvat and until 1979 worked as freelance photographer. She pursued various photographic projects in the 80s and 90s in Canada, the most important one being the portraits of traditional North-American Native India dancers. In 1992 a publication of her works entitled Portraits was published and featured in a number of exhibitions in Canada and the UK. Since her return in Europe in 1995, she travelled to Japan, Romania, Ethiopia, India, Greece, Mongolia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bulgaria to pursue her photographic work.

Her last project entitled “Presence" was on show in Arles at the prestigious Chapelle Sainte-Anne in 2018. Presence was published by Hatje Cantz in 2015 and successively shown at Art Basel, Paris Photo, New York and Vienna. Her next book on the Indian nomads and the gypsies was released by Hatje Cantz and D.A.P. Publishing in the United States in 2018. She will have a solo at the Fondation Rivera-Ortiz in Arles in 2020 and in major museums in Austria and Germany in 2021.