Plate #5- Atlantic ocean
Bretagne / France 2017
Plate #5- Atlantic ocean
Bretagne / France 2017
Plate #5- Atlantic ocean
Bretagne / France 2017
Caroline Halley des Fontaines
Artist
I am an artist photographer who always wanted to explore the world and its secrets and legends. I started young at 20 when I first went walking across the Himalayas.
I have been fullfilled and feel grateful for these long journeys around the world. I took photos all over the planet working with people, their stories and landscapes, always creating a collaboration to elaborate the best photograph with them that could relate to their archaic realms.
In each sacred place I could find a hidden world that was there to offer a treasure and embracing it was a very deep life adventure.
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The project "time and silence", photographs and films, has been exhibited all over Europe and United States (New York, Los Angeles) and has been supported by major foundations and art collectors.
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In 2014 my experience of the world, mankind and sacred places, took me to initiate a new art project about lights and colors in Nature : “Lightscapes”.
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Light is the source of life and the living world we live in.
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My researches and spiritual practices took me to explore colors as healing process, then I wanted it to become my art work. I designed a world map of colors and went to search for the most beautiful colors and locations on earth. I traveled there and made photographs while I was in a full immersion in nature and lights tonalities.
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There, photography and meditation met, again.
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Sun lights are the most sacred and beautiful expression of the natural world and each color of them nourrish a part of me and you.
Curriculum
Exhibitions
2021 July- March 2022 : "Lightscapes" ALIEN ART CENTRE
Contemporary Art museum Taiwan
Solo show Photography and video
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2019 Febr- April : "'Lightscapes" Art gallery Valentina Bonomo Roma Italy
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2014 : Solo Exhibition “Voyages aux centres de la terre” (journeys to the centers of the earth)
Hotel de sauroy Paris- Curator Me Laura Serani
2011: Solo Exhibition Urban Zen temple Project – Urban Zen studio – multi media installation - New York USA
Dona Karan Studio Soho
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2009: Solo exhibition – Historical library of Clamar- Paris/France
2008 March: Exhibition at Camera Work AG Gallery- Berlin Germany - “Time and silence”
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2007 : Represented by Camera Work Art Gallery- Berlin - Germany
Photo London, Paris photo, Miami photo art fares
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2007 May : Exhibition Stephan Weiss Art space (Dona Karan Art space) - New York USA
“Urban zen temple”- Installation photo/video in collaboration with laury Anderson
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2007 Represented by Camera Work Gallery (Berlin- Hambourg- International)
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2006 Nov- Jan 2007: House of the photography - MEP Museum - Lille - Frane
Exhibition “Indianscope” – Lille 3000 festival - Video and photography
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2006 Sept : Exhibition– Stephan weiss studio New York USA
Dona Karan Art space Soho
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2006 May june : Exhibition (solo) “The exil path”
Tiare exhibition space- Paris
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2006 Jan : Contempory Art Gallery Rabouan Moussion - Paris
Exhibition (solo )“Time and silence”
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2003 May- June : Lugano Switzerland
Exhibition (solo) “the exile path”
Extract from « Time and silence»
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2003 Janv : Los angeles Photo fare - On the path gallery
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2003 Janv: Solo exhibition - Gallery "On the path" Santa Monica - Los angeles - California
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Month of photography Paris 2002 - 16 nov/14 janv
Iris Gallery - "Regards rebelles"
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2001 European Parlment (1st world wide congress against death penalty)
Exhibition (solo) «freedom with no wings » sponsored by Dupon
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2000 May : EDF exhibition space - the bosniac world
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Art Projects
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2014- 2020
Conception and realization of "Lightscapes" Art project (photos/videos/drawing) on the inner experience of lights and colors in Nature.
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2015-2016
Artistic director on a feature film about Mr Giori’s life and destiny - Biopic
Giori films production - Luxembourg
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2011
Filming project “The dark” documentary fiction for theatre on the last pelgrimage of Joan Halifax in Tibet.
Expedition in Tibet - Mount Kailash - 6 weeks of shooting.
Photo director
Mangusta production New York - USA
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2009
Photo and video project on the meaning of life – “urban zen temple” exhibition project in New York 2011
Conception and realization of independent films, videos, interviews.
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2007- 2008
Photographic and video work “Babel” (the bounders of knowledge)
Photographic and film project on ancient legends:
*legend of the sacred bird “Mata” (easter island- Chili)
*legend of the white virgin (Lalibela- Ethiopia)
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2008 : Book projects with the editions Teneues (German) and editions La Martiniere (french)
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1999 - 2008
Realization of the photographic project « Time and silence »
Shooting in India (women jail Jaipur), Tibet-Nepal-India (exile paths), Afghanistan
(The hazarah from bamyan), Cambodge (siem reap), Kenya (vanishing tribes of
samburu), Sri Lanka (slavery and tea plantations), Ethiopia (the keepers of the temples
of lalibela), Egypte (touaregs’s memory)
Sponsors : Fuji, Leica, Labo Dupon, Kodak (sponsor for young talents), Foundation Bianimale NewYork. Voyageurs du Monde, Tiare group, Tibetan foundation Switzerland/ Spain/ USA, Accor Group; Air France…
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