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Far from the centers, far from the norms, some reinvent freedom at the margins. This photographic work reveals lives that our society often prefers to forget.
“Le Bois de la Dauphine, Elsa Beaumont
This photographic series is the second part of a project carried out within a community support association based in the Cévennes. Since its creation in 1985, the association has acquired abandoned sites to create welcoming spaces for marginalized people. The purpose of this work is to make visible the life trajectories that develop and express themselves at the margins of our society.
“I also perceive in it the experimentation of an alternative form of freedom invented by those rejected by the model in spaces left vacant because they are no longer profitable or exploitable.” This project was supported by the DRAC Occitanie.
Elsa Beaumont explores a documentary and social approach to photography, building an artistic body of work through the organic interplay of light and matter. Her long-term projects unite in the image intimate territories—the inner worlds of people excluded or marginalized from society. Her photographs break down boundaries of representation and challenge prejudices, creating a sensitive connection to others and the different, revealing all their complexity and light.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, she is a laureate of the Revelation Prize SAIF x La Kabine, the Maison Blanche Prize, and received a special mention from the FOCALE Prize. She has also been a finalist for the Mentor Prize and the QPN Prize. Her photographs are regularly exhibited and projected.