Isabelle Boccon-Gibod
(1968-)

Photographer,
lives and works in Paris

Dsabelle Boccon-Gibod firstly practiced collage and installation; a practice with the aim of solving an internal puzzle, of knowing the unknown. Isabelle Boccon-Gibod turned to photography at the age of 30 in order to conserve a trace of her compositions. She studies at the City of Brussels School of Photography, and within a few years, photography became her preferred means of expression. Photography combines, by its very nature, an interiorization of the outside and the exteriorization of an interior. All of Isabelle Boccon-Gibod’s work aims to shed light on these contradictions – sometimes seriously, sometimes humorously.

Timeline of work shown or published:
2006/ 20 minutes of Bonheur – feature-length documentary directed with Oren Nataf
2006/ Finland-Atlantic – images of a transatlantic crossing on board a Finnish oil tanker(Daniel Perahia, Brussels)
2008/ At the Toll – images from inside a toll booth (Daniel Perahia, Brussels)
2008/ 11 minutes Atlantic – short video (Festival ” Côté Court “, Pantin)
2010/ Siberian Perspectives – images of a factory (Door Studio, Paris)
2011/ Acting Out – video – walking in Jerusalem (Haifa Museum)
2012/ Fors Intérieurs – portraits of mathematicians (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; ed. Léo Sheer)
2014/ Sous les Ponts, Paris – images from under the bridges (Galerie Nabokov, Paris; ed. Verlhac)
2015/ The pictorial temptation in the digital age – article (Camera, no. 11/12)