BIOGRAPHY

 

 

         ELSA FAUDÉ is a French women filmmaker and photographer-author whose work merges photography, video, installation, and writing, navigating the borderlands between documentary and poetic expression. Her practice weaves together notions of wandering and belonging, where the act of vagrancy becomes an inner exploration of territories. Since 2023, she has also been working as a still photographer and audiovisual technician in the independent film industry, and has been commissioned for slow fashion shows.

STATEMENT

        Elsa Faudé’s photographic wandering is a journey through dreams, memory and identity, engaging in a dialogue between intimacy and universality. Through mixed media, she transforms photography into a critical tool for questioning mechanisms of resistance and emancipation. Her cinematographic visions, poised between dream and surreality, explore alternative processes and countercultural representations.

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

SELECTIONS AND COMPETITIONS JURIES

June 2026/ shortlisted for Le prix de l’intime by RPBB – Photodocparis, among 10 finalists

Dec 2025/ shortlisted at Les Rencontres de la Photographie de Boulogne Billancourt, among 31 semi-finalists (Paris – France)

Dec 2025/Les rencontres de la photographie Face à la mer (Tanger – Morroco)

Dec 2024/ Emerging Woman Artist Award: Artprize FALL 2024 curated by Arts to Hearts Projects

Dec 2024/ Les rencontres de la photographie Face à la mer (Tanger – Morroco)

Oct 2024/ Closer by La Nuu International Fotofestival (Riuu – Spain)

Sept 2024/ Shortlisted for the MPB award by On stage photography 

Sept 2024/ Bialystok Interphoto Festival portfolio reviews (Warsow – Poland)

March 2024/Descubrimientos by PhotoEspaña (Madrid – Spain)

Feb 2024/ Portrait Awards 2024 Competition Gallery by Lens Culture

 

PRIZES

Sept 2025/ Documentary photography award by Le Bleu du Ciel

Jan 2025/ The curator’s choice of the exhibition upside/down by PH21 Gallery
Sept 2024/ 24th Julia Margaret Cameron honorable mention by Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
July 2024/ prize Mark Grosset- SAIF at Les Promenades photographiques (Blois – France)
April 2024/ prize accésit of the Luminic Festival (Sant Cugat del Vallès – Spain)
Sept. 2018/ UCLA award art competition Honor Mention (Los Angeles – USA)

 

EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS

March – May 2026/ Emerging photography festival Impulse (Arles – France)
Dec 2025/ Red Hot Miami (USA) represented by Van Gogh Art Gallery (Madrid – Spain)
Sept 2025/ La nuit de la photo – photographic center Le Bleu du ciel (Lyon – France)
Sept 2025/ Monaco International Artfair represented by Van Gogh Art Gallery 
July 2025/Group exhibition – Julia Margaret Cameron at Valid Foto with Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
June 2025/ Experimental film screening, “Dimarts de cine” – Santa Monica Arts Center (Barcelona, Spain)
March-April 2025/ Group exhibition – Patricia Cancello art gallery (Barcelona – Spain)
March 2025/ Virtual group exhibition – Emerging Woman Artist Award – organized by Arts to hearts projects
Feb-March 2025/ Group exhibition “Upside/Down ” at PH21 gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
Jan- Feb 2025/ Group exhibition at Galeria Origen (Madrid- Spain)
Dec 2024-Jan 2025/Group exhibition at Fucar22 art gallery (Madrid – Spain)
June-July 2024/ Group exhibition in Blanca gallery and photographic projection at the Festival Luminic (Sant Cugat del Vallès- Spain)
June 2024/ Photographic film projection at the Festival Luminic (Sant Cugat del Vallès- Spain)
June 2024/ Group exhibition in Artokgallery (Rotterdam- Netherlands)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Sept 2025/ 9 lives magazine, Le Bleu du Ciel vous donne rendez-vous pour La Nuit de la Photographie by Ericka Weidmann
April 2025/ Best of April with Carmencita Film Lab
Dec 2024/ Altiba9 – issue 17 Print magazine, limited edition, printed in London.
Sept 2024/Fotonostrum magazine special, “24th Julia Margaret Cameron award”, september 23th 2024, page 69.

WRITINGS

March 2023/ In transit: Approaching dissenting cartographies through artistic photographic practice.
Universitat Politècnica de València.
Sept. 2021/  Article “Transmission and reappropriation of the trauma of the Spanish Civil War in contemporary art” in the academic review “Polifónica”, n°2
Nov. 2011/  The identity metamorfosis of the Catalan surrealism in Joan Miró’s and Josep Foix‘s artworks.
Université Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès.
Sept. 2007/The rhythm of the world: Cubism, Orphism, lines, and music. 2007, Google book, 440 pages.
Université Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès.

 

EDUCATION

2025-2026/ Mentorship of Impulse festival in Arles
2024/ 2ndo de Diploma en Cinematografía
Escuela de cinema Bande à Part – Barcelona
2024/ Posgrado de creación y reflexión en fotografía
Instituto d’Estudis Fotográfics de Catalunya de Barcelona
2024/ Posgrado de fotografía publicitaria y corporativa
Instituto d’Estudis Fotográfics de Catalunya de Barcelona
2024/ Formación en diseño y gestión de proyectos culturales y artísticos
Centro de innovación y formación de Hospitalet de LLobregat
2023/ Diploma of specialisation of the Master’s in Photography, Arts and Technique
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
2023/ Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
2019/ Certificate degree of Fine Art Photography 
University of Los Angeles California Extension
2012/ CAPES
Master’s Degree in Teaching French language and literature 
University Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès
2011/ Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature and Arts 
University Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès/ Universidad de Barcelona