Flore (photographer)

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Grand-daughter of Spanish political refugees and daughter of the painter Olga Gimeno, Flore was born in the South of France in 1963. She began photography in 1977 and, after studying in Toulouse, settled in Paris where she lives and currently works.

[edit] In short

September 2006 : "Carte Blanche" from the Regional Council of the Pyrénées Orientales for a diptych on the Rivesaltes Concentration camp.

January 2006 : Admission to Galerie Emotion Paris - Direction Lydie Trigano

Sept- Nov, 2005 : Carte Blanche from the Petit Palais Museum. Photographic narration in colour on the return to the Paris Museum of Fine Arts of its collections after five years of absence. Acquisition by the museum of 120 digital prints 13/18 and 23 digital prints format 24/30 to 40/50 Fine Art on paper Permajet Museum, Epson microencapsulated ink under works numbered within the catalogue.

November 2005 : Acquisition of 16 argentic photographs, toned, gold pigmented by the artist, format 24/30, under works numbered within the catalogue by The Petit Palais Museum.

June 2001 : Acquisition of 50 photographs by The Petit Palais Museum of fine arts in Paris for its collection (20 argentic black & white prints printed by the artist, 20 argentic prints black and white tea-toned, tinted and polished by the artist and 10 Fresson prints), format 24/30, under works numbered within the catalogue.

2001: Admission to Jean-Pierre Lambert gallery and agency for artists, contemporary photography.

From 2000 to 2005 : Photographer attached to the museum The Petit Palais for the duration of the restoration and modernization works. Carte Blanche, ordered by the Paris City Hall. The order includes approximately 450 argentic or digital archive prints, in colour and black and white to keep a souvenir of the place before the building works, during the works and the finished building before it’s reopening to the public as well as a Carte Blanche (artists’ prints acquired by the museum for the reopening exhibition, black and white and colour). After approximately 3 years, the curator in charge of photography, taking into account the collection of archive prints already in his possession decides, in view of their quality and their unit of writing making it possible to recognize their author, to grant each of them with a number in the catalogue, which is a first in the history of the hundred-year-old archives of the museum.

From 1996 with today : Portraitist of french actors : Richard Berry, Andréa Ferreol, Domenique Sandra and Catherine Hiégel, Roland Bertin, Eric Ruf, Eric Genovèse (members of the Comédie Française)… etc (book, press).

1999 : Freelance journalist for “Le Monde Littéraire”

From 1992 to 2000 : Collaboration with La Comédie Française

January - December 1994 : Report on the restoration of the Comédie Française. Ordered by the Ministry of Culture. Color and black and white

From 1992 to 1998 : Show photographer for the national press (Télérama, Libération, Le Monde, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur…)

January - December 1991 : Order from the TV network France 3 Toulouse - Midi -Pyrenees to photograph the entire statuary of the Midi-Pyrenees province for a daily game show. Approximately 400 statues photographed in Ektas colour (broad shot, close up, wide shot and “mysterious”).

[edit] Various collective or individual expositions of which

° Loin de l'Espoir (Far from Hope) : 20 argentic photographs in black and white, format 40/50. Trial portrait of a place of suffering : - National Heritage day 2006, Concentration camp of Rivesaltes (66)

° Cross glances: 56 prints belonging to the collections of the Petit Palais Museum (technical and various formats). - Dec. 2005 - Janv. 2006 : Paris museum of Fine Arts

° Behind the palisade: 9 prints black and white “Lambda”, formats 100/150 and 120/180. Collective Exhibition based on the modernization and restoration works of the Petit Palais Museum - March - July 2005 : Palisades of the Petit Palais Museum. Paris

° Flore in her Palace: 18 single argentic prints, tea-toned, tinted and polished by the artist. Format of the 10/15 to the 40/50. - Dec.- Feb. 2005 : Workshop Paris Half-tone

° The Petit Palais Museum at four o'clock in the morning: 14 single argentic prints, tea-toned, tinted, polished by the artist. Format 60/90 White chart, ordered by the Town of Paris on the restoration works of the Petit Palais Museum. - Dec.2004 - Fév. 2005 : Direction of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris. Hotel Albret.

° Florilège or Reminiscence: 20 Polaroids black and white. Format 40/50. Nude portraits of man on the wonders of the flesh. Series selected to represent France at the European contest “Final Art”

° Secret garden: 30 argentic photographs in black and white. Format 24/30, landscapes and still lifes on a certain absence In memory of Eric Doye, boarder of Comédie-Française. - July 1999 : La Poste place Clichy. Paris - March 1999 : FNAC- Montparnasse. Paris - Dec. 1998 : International AIDS day. Faculty of Science. Toulouse. - Nov. 1998 : 1er Prize at the Fotofolies of Rodez for the whole of the series and exhibition at the Town hall. - Nov. 1997 : FNAC. Toulouse. - March 1997 :Galerie Contrejour. Paris - Nov. 1996 : Month Off of Photography. Paris.

° Glycine, 20 photographs of the black and white performance on Canson, format 24 /30 - March 1994, Theatre du Vieux-Colombier, Paris.

° Fugitive Grace, 60 dance photographs in black and white and colour. - March 1991, Espace St Cyprien, Toulouse