Clémentine Schneidermann
is a French photographer living and working between Paris and South Wales. She is currently a resident of Le 6B in Saint-Denis (93).
She recently completed a practice-based PhD at the University of South Wales, Cardiff entitled Photographing Children in a Social Context: Narratives and Strategies (2021). She works on long term projects & commissions and is interested in new creative practices in social documentary photography. Her approach is collaborative and playful, with an interest in communities, childhood as well as our relationship to identity and culture. Clémentine also regularly contributes to publications such as Self Service, Dazed or Vogue Italia. She is a co-founder of Ffasiwn Stiwdio, a photography-based creative studio that creates workshops, publications, films, and exhibitions with youth groups.
Selected Press
The Financial Times Magazine, 2023 ‘Martin Parr selects his favorite photographers ahead of Photo London’
The Guardian “My Best Shot”, 2022
032c “ Photographic Performances, Charlotte James and Clementine Schneidermann”, 2022
Vision#11 Podcast with Clémentine Schneidermann (in French), 2021
Creative Review “Clémentine Schneidermann traces Georges Brassens’ legacy in Sète”, 2020
Blog de Fabien Ribery, “Gare au gorille, par Clémentine Schneidermann photographe”, 2020
The New Yorker “A Portrait of Prepubescent Youth in South Wales”, 2019
The Guardian “It was our catwalk”, 2019
Wales Arts Review “All the Oddities of Wales”, 2019
The Face “Ffasiwn, The Film”, 2019
i-D “It’s Called Ffasiwn”, 2019
M le Magazine du Monde”God save the King” (Portfolio), 2018
Libération "Une photographie de mode sociale", 2016
Slate Behold " Elvis Presley's biggest fans ", 2015
New York Times Lens blog " Elvis is everywhere ", 2015
Awards
Taylor Wessing Prize (Winner) 2022
Le Bal / Adagp (Coup de Coeur) 2021
Hundread Heroine, Royal Photographic Society, 2018
Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award (winner) 2016
Art Council Wales (2019, 2020)
Links
Ffasiwn Stiwdio - Editions Chose Commune - Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol - Sion and Moore, London - European Centre for Documentary Research - Blog (archive)