Winner of this year’s 2nd prize at the Prix Picto de la Jeune Photographie de Mode is Solene Ballesta, a young photographer who specializes in fashion, portraits and staged photography. She tries to instill a sense of the fantastic into familiar environments through quirky, offbeat characters.
A graduate of the Condé Paris photography school, Ballesta has collaborated many times with Parisian fashion and studio photographers. Caught between the past and the present, Ballesta likes to play with aesthetic codes and references to create a somber, spooky world.
Read the full article in the French version of L’Oeil.
