- Lorraine Turci depicts the complex reality of people’s relationship with their territory. Her approach is both resolutely demanding and highly sensitive. Favouring long-term projects, often linked to exploration or to a certain idea of isolation and wilderness, she reveals particularities of the world. Her work focuses on questions of identity, human rights, transmission, and memory, seen through the prism of our relationship to land, nature and beyond.
Lorraine graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Nantes and holds a Master's degree in Photography from the University of Paris VIII. She lived in Montreal for several years, then at sea, working as a photographer on a cruise-liner for four years. Determined to develop her personal practice, she resumed her studies, graduating with a diploma in Documentary Photography from the University of Perpignan in 2019. Since then, she has honed her artistic vision through personal photographic projects as well as commissioned work for the press and NGOs.
She is represented by Hans Lucas, has exhibited in France and abroad and participated in several festivals (Visa pour l'Image, Festival photo l'Homme et la Mer, Nuit blanche de Montréal, European Month of Photo, Norway Nordic Light festival, Warsaw Photo DaysHer work has also appeared in the press (Géo, Terra Mater, La Croix…). She has been the recipient of several awards ( The Independent Photographer and SIPA Awardswas a finalist for the Visa d'or de l'info numérique France Info and the Prix Paris Match du Photo-Reportage Étudiant and has just been awarded the Brouillon d’un rêve grant from the SCAM and the Prix Paris Match du Photo-Reportage Étudiant.
In 2022, she takes part in the major national photographic commission from the French Ministry of Culture: Radioscopy of France: looks at a country crossed by the health crisis.
- based on a text by Sylviane Van de Moortele
Group exhibitions & screenings
2021 Festival photo l'Homme et la Mer, Guilvinec, France
2021 Prix Mentor, Visa pour l'Image, screening and presentation, Perpignan, France, 2019 New borders, International Photography Symposium, screening, Nida, Lithuania
2021 _ Prix Mentor, Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, screening and presentation, Arles, France
2021 The Independent Photographer , CBL Gallery, European Month of Photo, Berlin, Germany
2021 The Independent Photographer , Office Project Room, Milan, Italy
2019 Visas de l’ANI, Visa pour l’image Festival, Perpignan, France
2019 Traversées, Visa pour l’image Festival, screening, Perpignan, France
2019 Face à la Mer festival, screening, Tanger, Maroc
2019 Aude, petite France, Visa pour l’image Off Festival, Perpignan, France
2019 Prix du Photoreportage Étudiant Paris Match, Paris City Hall, France
2019 Aude, petite France, Political Film Festival, Carcassonne, France
2018 Rencontres du Pays du Mont-Blanc, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France
2018 Kaunas Photo Festival, screening, Kaunas, Lituania
2018 Les Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, screening, Pierrevert, France
2018 Nordic Light festival, screening, Kristiansund, Norway
2018 Nuit de l'ICART, screening, Paris, France
2018 TIFA winners exhibition, screening, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Beyond the Lens, Lo Stellino, Sienna, Italy
2017 Post-Sovieticus, Warsaw Photo Days festival, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Stara Galeria ZPAF, screening and presentation, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Nuit Blanche, Center for Sustainable Development, screening, Montreal, Canada
2017 Expo top 20, Marseille Airport, Marseille, France
2017 Landscapes, Blank Wall Gallery, Athènes, GrèceSolo exhibitions
2023 Aïnous, House of Culture of Japan, Paris, France
2018 Ijsglitch, AdMAre artist center, Magdalen Islands Airport, Canada
2017 Homo Antarctica, Center for Sustainable Development, Montreal, Canada
Artist residencies
2022 Mentorat, National School of Photography, Arles, France
2020 Le Manguier, Akunnaaq, Greenland, with the support of Fujifilm FrancePublic Commission
2022 Radioscopy of France: looks at a country crossed by the health crisis, major national photographic commission of the French Ministry of Culture, carried by the French National LibraryUrban installation
2019 à 2029 City Panorama, photo murals in 3 bus shelters, Seattle, USA, with the support of Photographic Center Northwest and the King County MetroAwards, grants & nominations
2022 Grant Brouillon d'un rêve Photographie of the Scam (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors)
2022 Grant Sasakawa, Franco-Japanese Foundation
2022 Grant from theAFDAS
2021 second prize The Independant Photographer, Visual Storytelling Competition
2020 Life Framer Editors' Pick
2020 finaliste LensCulture Journeys
2019 laureate Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant Paris Match
2019 Coup de cœur of ANI
2019 shortlisted France Info Golden Visa of Digital Information
2018 SIPA Siena International Photo Awards
2018 second prize TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards
2017 Canadian Applied Arts Photography Awards
Catalogs
2021 The Independant Photographer, Talents of the Year
2018 exhibition catalog Beyond the Lens, SIPA Siena
2017 exhibition catalogue Post-Sovieticus, Warsaw Photo DaysCollections
BnF, French National Library (to come)
AdMAre, Artists Center for Contemporary Art, Magdalen Islands, Canada
Beijing Film Academy, Beijin, Chine
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Private collectionsRelated activities
Member of Hans Lucas and Scam
2021 educator photographer, C'est mon patrimoine, Graph-CMI, Carcassonne
2019 iconographer (internship) French NavyMinistry of Defence, Paris, France
2020 educator photographer, primary school, Akunnaaq, Greenland
2018 interview, ICI-Radio-Canada, Montreal, Canada
2018 interview, CFIM Radio, Magdalen Islands, CanadaEducation
2019 Documentary Photography Degree, with high honors, Via Dominia University, Perpignan, France
2008 Master Photography, with honors, University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
2005 exchange program in BA (Hons) Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors, Fine Art School of Nantes, Nantes, France
