About Sidney Carron
Born in Vienne, Isère, Sidney Carron is a visual artist and photographer whose work explores light as raw material, body imprints, and the memory of shores.
Biography
Sidney Carron approaches photography from its original matrix, the work of light, which she develops with a fully assumed freedom. She works outdoors, by the water, arranging bodies, plant fragments, branches, stones and other natural elements directly on the photosensitive surface, letting the sun, wind, sand and sea intervene in the image.
Her works are made of floating silhouettes, of skin turned to light and almost ghostly traces. Halfway between photography and painting, these imprints merge with the wave or the cloud, as if each work were a fragment of memory left on the shore.
Trained at the École du Louvre in jewelry design, graduating second in her class, she began making jewelry at Place Vendôme before leaving everything to devote herself to photography. A tireless traveler, she flew to Africa, the Americas and Asia for photographic reportages, before developing her unique solar imprint process.
Biography by Frédéric Beigbeder
I write with light. To be in osmosis, in total harmony with nature, I replaced the camera with the sun. The elements set in motion... Light: it is fire! Air activates the ph, transforms matter. The Sea, stops the image as it transforms... And then the earth, on which the bodies rest, leaves a chemical reaction, where you are. I found an alchemical process that is a testimony. Borrowing light, sea spray and the sea, to imprint Bodies on this Earth. Text by Sidney Carron & Marion Poussier