Because the night (suite)

• Photographer
  scarlett coten, France
• Website
  http://www.scarlettcoten.com

Because the night is a work on the world of dreams.
From our shadowy side comes forth an astonishing truth in which we
experience a radical strangeness. But is there such a thing as a strange
dreams, is it not in their very nature to be so ?
The assembly of two images creates a new combination, another
possible reading, a new dimension where everything becomes fiction.
The very meaning of these new images is an illusion. What we see is something that doesn�t exist, or at least only exists through our interpretation, in the same way that interpretation brings about some dreams. These images are a totally subjective, random and personal illustration of a journey in the world of dreams, with the same freedom of thought as dream scenarios that reveal the journey of the soul in its nocturnal wanderings.

Scarlett Coten is an independent french female photographer based in Paris.

After studying photography at the ENSP in Arles, she set up in 1998 in Paris as a full-time

photographer, working on assignments for publications such as Elle, Marie-Claire, Libération,

Le Monde Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine, Courrier Internationalâ?¦

In 2000 she traveled to Sinai to realize her first feature documentary.She embarked on an

emotional journey, and spent months travelling through the Sinaï desert with the Bedouins,

sharing their everyday life.Her strong attachment to this people and their stories, and her

immersion in the Bedouin society, bring a unique and remarkable intimacy to this work.

This series, was published in 2009 in her first book, Still alive, in a trilingual edition. In 2004

it was awarded the Humanity Photo Award in Beijing, China, and in 2009 nominated at the

NYPH Festival. Since then, she has worked predominantly on long-term projects, focusing

on issues related to her particular vision of nomadism. Cameleon Caravans, dresses the

portrait of an immobilized nomadism, seasonal, that of the caravans on the Camargue

beaches in the South of France ; a popular, if outlawed, tradition. With Empty Spot and

Plastic World, series of empty places, disparate and deserted, she continues to bring her

personal and intimistic approach through images captured the world over, in a kaleidoscopic

vision of our inherently nomadic condition. Between 2009 and 2011, her involvement in

Arabic territories brings her to focus on a Morocco in the midst of transformation, to

chronicle the everyday world and environment of a population that seemed endless in both

its contradictions and the diversity of its intentions.

In parallel, since her first photographs in black and white, she has been interrogating fiction

and its various representations, between illusion and apparence, memory and imagination.

Since 2009, Scarlett Cotenâ??s work is represented by The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubaï

and Gallery 127 in Marrakech.

Awards 2015: Finalist Leica Oscar Barnack Award (50 best entries)
2014: Finalist FIFCV (Festival International de Foto de Cabo Verde)
2014: MIFA, HM (Moscow International Foto Awards)
2014: Finalist GPF (Guernsey Photography Festival)
2013: PPOY (Professional Photographer of the Year) Medium Format Top 20
2013: IPA 4 Honorable Mentions_
2012: PX3 4 Honorable Mentions_
2011: IPA 4 Honorable Mentions
2009: NYPH Festival, Still alive nominated (Book)_
2004: Beijing Photo Award, Still alive (Portrait)