PODCAST: Meeting with Elisa Haberer

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Élisa Haberer graduated from Lyon 2 Lumière University with a degree in photography and ethnology, and dedicated her dissertation to the family album.
Keen to experiment with the photographic medium as a means of representation, she questions the figure of the portrait. Her work is rooted in an intimate approach to documentary. She questions reality by photographing stories told in the first person. Her approach focuses on people and their representations, on who they are as beings, what they are as members of society and their individual mythologies.
Her writing is influenced by Impressionist painting, with color used to underline a form, a gesture, an impression, a feeling.

Based on this principle, she explores the process of identity construction, creating devices in which she invites her models to participate.

In 2013, she made her first documentary film "My Lucky Bird", the diary of Chinese youth told by three young Beijingers at the moment when their lives are about to change.
In 2017, she published "Les Couleurs des Tumuli".
This book is the first part of a trilogy that questions the back and forth between memory and the actualization of memory through the photographic image.
She collaborates with numerous magazines and daily newspapers (6 MOIS, le Monde, Elle, Géo magazine, Paris Match, L'Équipe magazine, Courrier International, Le Monde, Télérama, Time, New York Time, The Guardian...), brands and cultural institutions.

Between 2018 and 2020, she was a lecturer in Image Semiology at the University of Cergy.
She is of Korean origin and lived in Beijing, China, for 7 years.
Today, she has settled in Paris.