003 (2022) Photography by Amandine Desjardins

Amandine Desjardins, artist photographer, was born in Mantes-la-Jolie (France), in October 1987. From an early age, she discovered the world of comics, a world of images and speech bubbles which without knowing it will create his own. An album in his hands, time stops, and the drawing feeds his curiosity as much as his need to withdraw.

Of an already very discreet nature, life is in charge of making her grow up brutally, by the test: at 9 years old, her child's gaze vanishes, at the announcement of the loss of her little brother, Archibald. Questions and words seem futile in the face of the need to understand, so the images once again become a refuge, as an alternative to reality. To say otherwise, without forgetting, to suspend the world, to shape it in one's mind, to transcribe it through composition and the play of shadows, and above all to save its light. To believe that fragility makes [photosensitive].

Her boiling mind and her thirst for learning made her take the plunge: Amandine Desjardins joined the Icart Photo School in 2012 to acquire techniques, new inspirations, and conquer the terrain of her practice.

From internships to meetings and from laboratories to studios, the more assertive photographer now takes an analytical look at the work of her peers whom she admires (Anna Buczek, Rahi Rezvani, Mono Giraud, Daniel Forero, Giuseppe Gradella, Ines Rychlik to name a few than them), and hones what she calls her enigma process, understanding the exhausting sincerity that hides in all accomplished, successful, purposeful photography. Her efforts and meticulousness paid off, since two years in a row, in 2013 and 2014, she was ranked among the ten finalists of the P'tit Clap competition.

Now based in the town of Arnouville-lès-Mantes (France), Amandine Desjardins explores, like others travel, and finds respite in the calm of a disused place, for the magic of the stones that have so much to say, in the soul of a face she captures, or if only in the fall of a sheet that finds its rightful place in front of the lens.

Adept at photo editing and shooting, she loves the care she takes with her subjects, attentive to the detail thought out beforehand, for thoughtful photography. In 2020, Amandine delivers her series entitled "[Re]cadre Émoi", echoing her inner quest: the art of sublimating what life imposes on us.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists