Nathalie Baetens

Enthralled with Art Brut and the poetic force of nature, Nathalie Baetens has been developing a photographic project about the ephemeral in France and Japan for several years. Forgotten cabins, masked figures, fragile shorelines, or curious beasts—she works in black-and-white, carefully selecting the grain and the paper that will make her images look like engravings, drawings, or some other form of contemporary ethnographic representation. Her photographs are exhibited regularly, notably at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, the Mois de la Photo held at the Grand Palais, the Festival du Regard in Cergy, the Promenades Photographiques in Vendôme, etc. They are also held in the BnF collection, the Hermès collection of contemporary photography, the Florence and Damien Bachelot collection, and the Antoine de Galbert collection.