MAZE

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Photographer

Cline Clanet
Date of Photograph

2005-2009
Website

http://www.celinette.com

I have lived several months in Maze not be here today, flooded with waters of a dam project that Norwegian government planned in early 70s, and fortunately aborted. I probably made pictures of a reality that will be soon impossible to see, due to cultural integration and the global warming disaster in Arctic. I have tasted and favorite season, when days get longer and temperatures get milder. The perfect moment, when time does not exist anymore and night is gone, in which they immerse themselves: fishing through an ice hole in Suolojarvi Lake, or riding the snowscooter across the tundra. Talking, or laying down doing nothing, saying nothing. Just being.

Biography

Born in 1977 and raised in the french Alps, Céline now lives and works in Paris, France. Graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles with jury honors in 1999, she works today as a freelance photographer and graphic designer. Her works deal with human territory, memory and identity issues. For her, making each series is an excuse to experiment the world differently, to question about our relashionship with it and our representations of it, or to record some parts of it threathened to fade away for ever. For the last 9 years, she has been travelling extensively in the European Arctic area (Lapland). Driving her beloved «Fearless Reindeer» Peugeot, she regularly settles in the sami village of Máze, where she usually lives for several weeks or months, among her sami friends, in the tundra. She desperatly learns how to joik. In 2010 and 2011, she will explore further the Lapland territory by travelling and picturing the Russian Lapland, in the Kola peninsula. Latest exhibitions_ FotoHuset, Kristiansand, Norway, 2009 Centre Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland, 2009 Spéos Gallery, Paris, France, 2008 Institut Français de Valencia, Spain, 2007 Kauno Fotografijos Dienos, Kaunas, Lituania, 2006 Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China, 2006 Les Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2006 Festival Voies Off, Arles, France, 2004 Galerie Madé, Paris, France, 2004 Forum de l’Image, Toulouse, France, 2004 Atelier De Visu, Marseille, France, 2003 Espace Culturel de Riec, France, 2002 3ème Biennale d’Art Photographique et Visuel, Liège, Belgium, 2002 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2002 Awards, grants_ Winner of the Critical Mass Book Award USA, 2009 PhotoforumPrize/Centre Pasquart, Finalist, Bienne, Switzerland, 2009 ITS (International Talent Support) photo contest, Finalist, Italy, 2008 Winner of PEEK contest, organized by Art+Commerce agency, USA, 2007 28th «Bourse du Talent Kodak/Photographie.com», Finalist, France, 2006 Winner of Kodak Dotation for «Máze» project, France, 2005 Grant from the DRAC (Direction Régionale pour l’Art Contemporain), France, 2005 14th «Bourse du Talent Kodak/Photographie.com», Finalist, France, 2001 Edition and publications_ Vision Magazine, China, May 2009 The Collector’s guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, USA, 2009 No Magazine, Norway, March 2009 Madame Figaro Voyage-Japon, Japan, Oct. 2008 Vision Magazine, China, Sept. 2008 Capricious Magazine, USA, 2007 «Un mince vernis de réalité», book edited by Filigranes Editions, France, 2005 Photo Nouvelles, photo magazine, France, 2005 Libération, national daily newspaper, France, 2005 Infra-Mince, art and photo book, Actes Sud Editions, France, 2005 Collections_ Société Française de Photographie Private collections

Story

I have lived several months in Maze, up to the north of the Arctic Circle, in Norway.

I have pictured Sami people, houses, territory and reindeers that should not be here today, flooded with waters of a dam project that Norwegian government planned in early 70s, and fortunately aborted.

I probably made pictures of a reality that will be soon impossible to see, due to cultural integration and the global warming disaster in Arctic.

I have tasted favorite season, when days get longer and temperatures get milder. The perfect moment, when time does not exist anymore and night is gone, in which they immerse themselves: fishing through an ice hole in Suolojarvi Lake, or riding the snowscooter across the tundra. Talking, or laying down doing nothing, saying nothing. Just being.