French photographer based in Arles, France.
With a hypersensitive perception of reality, Isabelle Vaillant has the ability to photograph this invisible part that exists in every being and every thing. Her gaze is a probe, sensitive, emotional, always close to the subject, so close that when looking at the photographs, we are plunged into an intrinsic, a journey toward the intimate, toward the other, that unknown that suddenly seems so familiar to us.
Isabelle Vaillant manages to extract the essence of reality, sometimes mysterious and strange, sometimes poetic, luminous, even esoteric… Her approach is intuitive, animal; she photographs as she breathes without setting any rules beforehand.
Isabelle Vaillant's photography is born in a distant, vibrant, and meaningful time, touching on infinity and timelessness. She soaks up all the beauty and energy of souls, matter, and spaces to allow this invisible world to embody itself, taking hold of us without restraint, transcending us, and infiltrating us. The imperceptible speaks to us, whispers to us. It vibrates with life, love, joy, and even death.
Isabelle Vaillant casts her gaze on bodies, childhood, isolation and solitude, ritual, and heavy, profound landscapes. She brings femininity, the banal, and the strange into being. She probes life, death, and this invisible world in the interstices. She opens a door to this limit, this mysterious and impalpable space, intimate and universal, suspended fragmented between two times, a disturbing yet reassuring space, a mirror to our souls.