Aurore Valade (born 1981) Le Temps de l'été, Exotico 2007 Lambda print on silver paper, mounted on aluminium 100 x 82 cm Provenance: > Galerie Baudouin Lebon, Paris (label on back) > Artcurial 60 photos pour que vivent les déserts, sale 15 November 2008, lot 75 > Private collection, Paris Condition report: Framed. Aurore Valade was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, and is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles. Her approach to photography is participatory: she draws inspiration from the everyday lives of her models and stages their vision of the world, where they blend in and merge with their environment. Despite the retouching and technical interventions, there is a real realistic force in her work. His photography is reminiscent of the Notes on the Melody of Things by the German poet and critic Rainer Marie Rilke. According to Rilke, understanding a character is less a matter of faithfully reproducing him or her than of representing the world in which he or she lives. Aurore Valade's work has won her numerous awards: Photo Folio Review des Rencontres d'Arles 2017, Prix de la Fondation HSBC pour la photographie 2008, Prix du Musée d'art moderne de Collioure 2006... (MLD)