Photographer: Ysel Fournet

Born in 1977 in the south of France into a hippie community, photographer Ysel Fournet developed a sensitivity to the human, memory and the fragility of existence at a very early age. Trained at the Gobelins school in Paris, he has built a body of work on the border between reportage, visual photography and contemporary art.

For several years, Ysel has been exploring powerful themes such as old age, disability, illness and poverty. However, his work goes beyond simple documentaries. Thanks to superimpositions, materials and metal supports, he transforms the image into a sensory experience, between dark poetry and emotional tension.

Her artistic research was first rooted in the intimate, particularly around her grandfather, before extending to the world of hospitals and trips to Africa. Between portraiture, staging and testimony, he develops a profoundly organic visual language, where reality mixes with surrealism.

With his “Calliphora” series, Ysel takes a new step by fully integrating material and plastic art into photography. His universe, both troubling and profoundly human, has been presented at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Culture Bar-Bars Festival.