Residency

For decades, people with disabilities have lived outside the city and have been represented as a body, an object of care, before being considered as people in their own right. The project carried out by the association APF France handicap Occitanie and the Boutographies aims to raise awareness of disability and to get out of the traditional representations through the author's photography.

Bio

Alexandra Frankewitz, independent photographer, was largely influenced during her training in Wales by this new form of documentary photography from the 80s which gives way to subjectivity in the documentary approach. The Human is very often at the center of his work. As much as photography, she likes to meet people, dissect their daily lives and the ordinary things that shape their world in order to show a reality close to her with the main motivation being to give voice to the photographed people. She joined the collective of photographers Transit in 2003, with whom she participated in artist residencies alone or as a group and led parallel personal projects: Des Aires, an inventory of mobile housing in France; Nicosia, the last divided capital of Europe....
Moreover, she regularly works for the national press (M le Monde, Libération, Télérama...), for cultural structures or communities. She has obtained several scholarships and awards: help with the creation of the DRAC Occitanie, help with the creation of the Occitanie region, or the coup de Cœur for the Talent Grant. His images are regularly exhibited (BNF, the Hyperfestival, the CRI des Lumières or Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff...).
For twenty years, she has lived and worked in Occitania. she claims a personal writing, on long-term projects at the regional, national and international levels. His projects are multifaceted and involve other professionals in
fields of application as varied as graphics, editing, video, sound or events.

Alexandra Frankewitz is a freelance photographer. She lives and works in Sète
Since 2002 It collaborates regularly with the national press, communities and associations
She has produced many personal/institutional/corporate reports
and has participated in many artistic residencies

Training
2001 BA (Hons) documentary photography/ University of Newport (Wales)
1998 Access Course photography, video/ University of Portsmouth (England)

Prizes, scholarships and residencies

2025 Residence APF (Association of the Paralysed of France) in partnership with the Boutographies
2024 Individual Aid for the creation DRAC Occitanie "village festivals, a space apart"
2023 'Rue de l'Etoile bleue' Montpellier, application for European Capital of Culture 2028
2022 Intimate landscapes with the Atelline, a place of artistic activation in public space
2021 Residency 'Views on sets' for Occitanie Films, Hérault.
2020 Support for the creation of the Occitanie region for the project 'Palimpseste' / Greece
2020 Support for the creation of DRAC Occitanie for the project 'The other country of Tango' / Finland
2019 Promotion of the Greenway of the Regional Natural Park of Haut Languedoc, Occitanie
2018 Artist residency at the School of Architecture of Montpellier (ENSAM)
2018 Laureate of the Prix de Cérisy
2018 Special mention of the competition "Regard sur les zones d'activités économiques"
2016 Winner of the call for projects "Regards sur des décors" by Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma.
2016 Edition of the box set "Respiration portuaire", ed. L'échappée belle.
2015 3rd Prize of the Ens'Art Photographic
2015 Favorite «ARPIA», (Association for the research and production of anthropology and art images)
2014 Residency "Ecritures de lumière" at the lycée de la mer "Paul Bousquet", Sète
2013 Coup de cœur «Bourse du Talent» category Reportage
2013 Photographic Spring Portfolio Award, Pomerols
2012 DRAC Languedoc-Roussillon creation grant

2011 Support to the creation Languedoc-Roussillon Region for the project "Des Aires"
2010 Residence "Ecritures de lumière", agricultural high school of Théza
2009 Residence "Ecritures de lumière", agricultural high school in Pézenas
2008 Residence "Nature Humaine", Languedoc-Roussillon 

Exhibitions

2026 Exhibition at the Pavillon Populaire, Boutographies, Montpellier (coming soon)
2025 "Port Breathing" Festival Man and the Sea, Le Guilvinec
2024 "The Tango of endless days" Multimedia libraries of Sète de Mèze.
2023 "Des Aires" and "Palimpseste" at the C.R.I. Des Lumières / Lunéville
2022 exhibition and screenings 20 years of the Transit Collective / Montpellier
2021 «Respiration Portuaire» 'Hyperfestival, on the banks of the Seine, Paris Vième.
2021 "Des Aires", New Photographic Observatory of the Great East, Nancy
2021 "Femmes d'Occitanie", hotel in the region of Occitanie Montpellier
2019 "Harbour breathing" International Cultural Center of Cerisy
2018 "A l'écho du présent" at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, Montpellier
2016 "The House and the World" exhibition of the agency Picturetank, Paris
2016 «Des Aires» Festival Confrontations Photo, Gex
2016 «Respiration Portuaire», Maison de la Photographie de Lille
2015 «Des Aires», Photographic Spring of Pomerol, Pomerol
2014 «Des Aires», Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
2013 "State of grace, state of affairs", Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff
2012 «State of grace, state of affairs» Central, Dupon, Paris
2012 "State of grace, state of affairs", Espace Dominique Bagouet, Montpellier
2011 «Nord(s)», The Transphotographiques of Lille
2008 "Datcha", Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier
2008 "Datcha", Le lac Gelé, Nîmes
2006 «Des clics et des classes», R.I.P., Arles

Books, catalogues and photographic objects

2022 Perspectives on economic activity zones. Tailor-made review
2019 50 years of Photography, from 1970 to the present day, Michel Poivert.
2015 Box «Respiration Portuaire» editions Echappée Belle
2012 The Conspiracy of Instants, Transit editions

The previous residences