Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier began her career as a freelance photographer in 1976. After several years covering fashion, cinema and politics for “Libération”, the self-proclaimed “documentary photographer” decided to travel to Africa, following in the footsteps of Michel Leiris. This journey inspired her first book, Sur les traces de l'Afrique fantôme (1990), which made her a prizewinner at the Villa Médicis off-site.> Read more
She then travelled to Siberia, the Behring Strait, South Africa and Cambodia, where she went back to the places of her Indochinese childhood. From 2000 to 2007, she spent two months a year in the communal apartments of St. Petersburg. After this immersion, she wrote a book, Kommunalki, and a film, Kommunalka.
At the same time, she devoted herself to fashion photography (Polka #7), working for revues such as “Vogue”, “Marie-Claire” and the “New York Times Magazine”. In 2014, a retrospective, “Pince-moi je rêve”, was dedicated to her at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Her latest exhibits are set in Korea, where she stayed in 1982 and returned in 2014 and 2015 (published in Polka #35).
In January 2023, Françoise Huguier joined the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the photography section.
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier
