Photo : © Elene Usdin

My photographs are the scene of my dreams and fantasies. They are the last step of a long process of thoughts and making. First I draw my daydreamed pictures. Then I make costume and sceneries to set up the shot.
The negative synthesizes the whole.
“Magic Fillette” collects portraits and self-portraits from different series. Used for bills of the Opera du Rhin or for fashion magazines, every one of these personal pictures shows woman in a magical almost sacred representation: they are Icons. From the reverie of a young girl living in a world of fairies to Greek tragedy goddesses: I worked on as a visionary artist, picturing my Muse as a fantasized character. Sometimes, hiding from view, the model’s face is really just a façade to the viewer. Yet he gives himself up to the games and wishes of the photographer.
I like to find again that childish pleasure of being someone else with the only help of a crown or a cloak. Just as a poet plays with words, I divert object from what it was originally meant for, or I reorganize the space around me so to make up a story. The making of a costume or a prop is my way of questioning appearances, how one reveals or hides oneself. My thoughts about materials, light and colours of one clothe are as an echo to fashion and to my ideas about fashion photography.


Greetings to:
Valerie Hersleven / Laura Schmid / Thierry Taboureau /
Jean Pierre Usdin / Marie Usdin / Edwin Herkens / Thomas grezaud / Jerome Siran

Credits :
Assistantes : Cécile Henryon / Chloé Bonnard / Sonia Gollino
Make up : Carole Colombani / Maniacha
Modeles : Anna Huurneman / Léa Lorenza / Lucie Amour / Katherina Koutras
Sasha c/o Karinmodels Paris / Iulia c/o Metropolitan Paris
Hair dresser : Jerome Blum / Celine Exbrayat
Stylistes : Annabelle Jouot / Delphine Brossard
Studio Daguerre Paris

www.eleneusdin.com


Exhibition from 15th May to 29th June "Magic Fillette "

Preview on Sunday 25th May - 12am
Exhibited at Galerie Le Carré - Rue de la Halle - Lille
Phone: 03 20 74 46 96

Open Wed to Sat from 2pm to 7pm and Sunday 10am to 1pm and 3pm to 6pm.