The Kiss is one of her best-selling prints. The 25-year-old photographer captures childhood, love, friendship and time passing with a subtlety that touches the heart.
In Gaëlle Simon's world we see the poetry of the ordinary, of life's little moments that speak volumes about who we are, with sadness and nostalgia but also hope and an ultimately communicative joy, so welcome in this social-media era. Her 'thing'? Identity, which she explores essentially through her personal experience. "I've always been fascinated by pictures," the Nice native enthuses. "My grandparents gave me my first camera when I was eight." She had her first exhibition while at university then went on to work with fashion brands and shops. At 20 she was spotted by Irina Brook, who was captivated by a video Gaëlle made for Pharrell Williams's Happy, and her career took off: she began photographing and videoing the Théâtre National de Nice's shows and backstage life, as if she were capturing the memories of a large family. She joined the Martin Sauvage online gallery and now exhibits regularly on the Côte d’Azur. Her Women with Moustaches series cocked a snook at clichés, her Very Little Love Stories created a buzz in France and even Canada, and presently she is working on a book on the Boum Boum exhibition she had in Nice's harbour district this April. And in Gaëlle's world today, pictures are now complemented by words, an intimate, absorbing poetry that she shares with the public.
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