from series “Autoportrait aux matelas”

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from series “Chaude nuit d’été”

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from series “la chambre”

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from series “la chambre”

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from series “la chambre”

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from series “la chambre”

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ELENE USDIN is not only an illustrator who has been published in several magazines and has created some children’s books but she is also an amazing talented photographer who likes to explore self-portraits.

“My images are like lucid dreams, incidental, like a game, words in a poem, staging the body and re-appropriating the space, the canvas, the objects arount it. I like to transform reality into a game. By changing the realities that surround us, the artist (or anyone) becomes a kind of visionary of a comic and playful world. To me, that approaches poetry; words become objects, the “furniture” of an interior that reassembles in a new way, creating a new order, a new metaphor.” -by ELENE USDIN

ELENE USDIN is part of the creative collective Hartland Villa that also includes art directors LIONEL AVIGNON and STEFAN DE VIVIES. She was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the “fair-etale” series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress”. She lives and works in Paris.