Awarded from Paris Beaux-Arts Academy Photography Prize for this project, which has been exhibited there at the end of 2012, Françoise Huguier will be in Bangkok, for the exhibition opening at BACC, one of the main contemporary art institutions in Thailand.
 

Vertical/Horizontal, Intérieur/Extérieur

 

This exhibition is the endpoint of a project initiated by Françoise Huguier in 2010, a study of middle classes’ everyday life in three South-East Asia capitals: Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.

To draw the portrait of this “multiethnic agora”, Françoise Huguier went closer to those women and men, main actors of this part of Asia modernisation, still unexplored.

Faces, looks, attitudes, body or architectural details, it is the life of those people , being in their daily grind that the photograph gives to see, through , as she calls “long, long life sequences”.
 

Françoise Huguier biography

 

Françoise Huguier began as a freelance photographer through collaboration with Georges Pompidou Centre in 1976, before making her first photographic reports for French magazines. In 1983, she started to realize photographies for Libération newspaper, cinema and politic fields and also fashion and culture, in France and abroad.

Great traveller, she started in the meatime to make personal works about Africa, Siberia, Japan, Russia and India. She received twice the « hors les murs Villa Medicis grant » for her both works Sur les traces de l’Afrique fantôme, sur les pas de Michel Leiris (1990) and En route pour Behring (1993) ( Word press photo prize). Her passion for Africa leaded her to create in 1994, the first African photography Biennal in Bamako, Mali.

After a long period working in the fashion field, she decided in 2001 to go to Saint-Petersburg in order to work on community flats. When she came back to France in 2008, she published a book and a movie about this subject.

In 2004, for the first time she came back to Cambodia. Her book I was 8 years old tells the story of her childhood, prisoner from the Viêt Minh.

Françoise Huguier numerous works had been exhibited all around the world.