Biographie
Jade Joannès, born in 1994 in Seine-Saint-Denis, grew up in the Paris suburb of 95, where she began self-taught photography in 2008. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2019 and now works between Paris and Roubaix. She has exhibited her work in France, Japan, the Netherlands and Germany. In June 2022, her project Une étrange attraction is published by Another Place Press.
In 2023, she exhibited Royaumes d'incertitudes in a solo show at the Maison des Arts et du Patrimoine in Beaumont. It was awarded the Urbanautica prize in 2024. The same year, she was awarded the national photography commission Regards du Grand Paris #9 by Ateliers Médicis and CNAP. Her work has been published many times, notably in Fisheye
Magazine, Nowhere Diary, Der Greif, GUP Magazine, Panorama and Pamplemousse Magazine. He will be exhibiting in Arles as part of the Impulse festival in 2025. Jade Joannès fashions documentary narratives by drawing on her immediate environment. Her work revolves around the inextricable link between individuals and the spaces they pass through, questioning the influence of these places in the construction of our identities and the way they profoundly connect us to the world and to reality.
Approaching each project as a portrait, she explores themes of history, the imaginary and the family through questions of systems of representation, intimate and public space, and contemporary society.
Présentation
Towns are living, visual archives. But for the young people of the Persan and Beaumont neighbourhoods in the northern suburbs of Ile-de-France, "there's nothing worth photographing here". In Persan on 19 July 2016, Adama Traoré died under the weight of the policemen on his birthday. 6 years later, Beaumont, an ancient medieval town that was one of the residences of King Louis IX in the 13th century, celebrates its 1,000th birthday. In this multi-narrative work, the photographer has drawn a subjective map of these places by going out to meet the young people and workers who are building these towns today, torn between the traces of the past and the social uncertainties specific to these suburbs.