Isbaelle Chapuis - Vivant

My work ranges from fine-art photography to therapeutic photography. These two dimensions nourish one another and share a common focus: the relationship to the body.

At the crossroads of these two practices, for seven years, I photographed and interviewed men and women without adornment. This work became my first book, entitled VIVANT, Le sacre du corps.
I had a deep desire to celebrate the sacred dimension of the body, to help each person offer themselves a benevolent gaze, and thus contribute to shifting representations.

It is a photographic project with a humanistic dimension: the book brings together 80 photographs and 15 testimonials from the people photographed for the project. It was important for me to give a voice to them; their words greatly contribute to the emotional depth and the healing quality inherent in my approach. I conceived the whole as a narrative of resilience, inclusiveness, self-love, acceptance, solidarity, and hope…