Finalists – Prix Picto de la Mode 2025 : Karen Faurie

Karen, a photographer graduated from ENS Louis-Lumière, explores through her work landscapes, life scenes, and still lifes. Influenced by the sea and forms, she aims to awaken the viewer’s senses and convey her emotions. Her photographic series blends fashion and nature in a poetic aesthetic, far from traditional conventions. The garments subtly interact with the landscape, inviting a contemplative pause and a return to the essentials.

Biography

Born in 1993 in Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, Karen grew up by the ocean, which sparked her desire to explore. After studying photography at ENS Louis-Lumière, she gained experience in advertising photography while simultaneously developing her personal projects. She is dedicated to a singular practice, blending landscapes, everyday scenes, and still life. She is fascinated by colors, textures, and forms. Through her photographic language, she seeks to transport the viewer into her world and emotions. Karen sees the medium as a form of synesthesia—an image that awakens all the senses. She also develops her work through the creation of short films.

Cold Outside

This photographic series merges fashion, landscapes, and still life, weaving a poetic connection between humans and nature. Far from the conventions of traditional fashion photography, it seeks to establish a subtle encounter between garments and the landscape, within a simple and poetic aesthetic. Each image invites a return to essentials, paying tribute to the elements, textures, and raw beauty of the natural world. The clothing either blends into or contrasts with the environment, creating a delicate interplay between form and nature. Free from opulence or superficiality, the series offers a pause—an instant of contemplation—encouraging us to look beyond appearances. It invites us to slow down, to breathe, and to reconnect with what truly matters through the visual language of photography.