Valérie Six

Born in the North of France, I am a freelance photographer based in Bordeaux.
Although I bought my first camera only in 2012, the medium quickly became an indispensable element of my life.
At the beginning, not knowing clearly what I wanted to do with it, I followed some workshops with famous photographers of different specialties (war reporter, street, portraits …), exciting weeks which confirmed me in my wish to pursue this passion. In 2015, I completed these sessions with a short technical training at the Gobelins school in Paris, but it is mainly in practicing alone in the streets that I learned the most.
Winner or finalist of numerous awards, my images have been exhibited in France and abroad (Bordeaux, Arles, Marseille, London, Miami, Milan, Kuala Lumpur, Brussels and New York…) and published in numerous online or print magazines.
Winner of the “Women street photographers” contest for an artist residency in New York city in December 2019 (WSP is a platform, Instagram feed, website and traveling exhibitions curated by Gulnara Samoilova), a selection of my residency’s work was presented last year in a solo exhibition in NYC, alongside WSP’s annual exhibition in Dec. 2019-Jan. 2020.
Ever since I started the photo, I have not ceased, beyond the pure aesthetic aspects, to look for the attitudes, the backgrounds, the small details of our daily life which, associated with a particular light (often a chiaroscuro) allow me to project myself- and the viewers too, I hope – into a universe halfway between fiction and reality. Photos like small improvised theatrical scenes or sequences of dreams, results of a small wait or taken on the fly, but a reflection always in my eyes of a particular emotion (humor, romance, mystery, surprise…), or a reflection of my interrogations about the aspects often absurd, often chaotic and obscure of the lives we live.
There is at the same time in my images, the desire to better understand my environment and that of the person crossing my frame, as well as transcending it to bring a little extra magic or poetry.