GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Carolle Benitah

Biography
Artist Carolle Benitah
Born in 1965 in Casablanca - Morocco
Lives and works in Marseille - France
Graduated from the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (Paris),
Carolle Benitah worked for ten years as a fashion designer. In 2001, she decided to
change and turned to photography.
She followed several workshops in France and abroad which allowed her to collaborate
with photographers such as Lise Sarfati, Mathieu Pernot, Antoine d’Agata, Klavdji Sluban, Bernard Plossu, Mary Ellen Mark and Alessandra Sanguinetti.
2003-2004
École Nationale Supérieure de Photographie, Arles
2001-2003
Photography classes at École Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts, Marseille
2003 -2009
Classes about «la lecture de l’image» at Université du Temps Disponible in Marseille
Solo exhibitions
2013
Paris Photo Los Angeles, Galerie 127, Los Angeles
2012
Féminité sans tabous, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Photos Souvenirs, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Morocco
Photos Souvenirs, Galerie de l’Aimance, Casablanca, Morocco
2010
A Bed of Roses, Galerie Leica, Solms, Germany
2009
Lost Angeles, Galerie Fontaine Obscure, Aix-en-Provence, France
2008
Twelve, Galerie La Traverse, Marseille, France
Group exhibitions
2013
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Tisser des liens, Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, for Marseille Cultural
European Capital Provence 2013
Photos-souvenirs, La Jetée, Marseille, for Marseille Cultural European Capital
Provence
2012
Paris Photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Festival Mode,Design et Photographie, Tunis, Tunisia
Photos Souvenirs, Galerie de l’Aimance, Casablanca, Morocco
Les regrettés, Sunnhordland Museum, Halsnoy, Norway
Fotofever, Brussels, Belgium
Post Script, curator Peggy Sue Amison, The Camdem Palace Hotel, Cork, Ireland
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
36, rue Falguière
75015 Paris – France
www.ewgalerie.com
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2011
All my lovin’, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
AIPAD, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, New York City
PHOTOMED, Festival de la photographie méditerranéenne, Sanary-sur-mer, France
Lens Culture International Awards, Gallery 291, San Francisco, USA
10 ans de photographie à Oaxaca par Mary Ellen Mark, Centre Manuel Alvarez Bravo,
Oaxaca, Mexico
Out of Mind fotofestiwal, Lodz, Pologne
Lens Culture International Awards, VII Dumbo, New York City
Les Nuits de Pierrevert festival, Pierrevert, France
Lens Culture International Awards, Spéos, Paris
Bittersweet, Mermaidsart, Bray, Ireland
Marrakech Art Fair, Galerie 127, Marrakech
Portraits et Icônes, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Fotofever, Paris
2010
Paris Photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
Connivence, Pingyao Festival, China
Bittersweet, galerie Doswell, West Cork, Ireland
Une saison marocaine, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Morocco
All my lovin’, Fotofestiwal Lodz Art Centre, Lodz, Poland
Slideluck Potshow, Le Comptoir Général, Paris
Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bittersweet, Macroom Old Town Hall Gallery, county Cork, Ireland
2009
Révélation 3, Foire de photographie contemporaine, Paris
Photo folio Review, ateliers SNCF, les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie,
Arles, France
Voyage imaginaire, Galerie Corcia, Paris
Paris Photo, Galerie 127 Marrakech, Paris
2008
Festival d’art contemporain, Naves, France
Festival Les Boutographies, Montpellier, France
Empreintes du temps, Fontaine obscure, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Phot’Aix, Fontaine obscure, Aix-en-Provence, France
Rencontrer l’intime, Carolle Benitah and Louise Narbo, mois de la Photo-Off, Galerie
Corcia, Paris
2007
Festival Héliogabale, projection du collectif LocCit, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Flowers, visavisphoto.com
Twelve, Bourse du Talent #29, Rubrique Premier Regard
Celebrating 50 years of Leica M, Leica Gallery, Berlin
Photo Folio Review, ateliers SNCF, les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie,
Arles, France
Festival KAUNAS Photo Days 06, Kaunas, Lithuania
Sans titre, Mois de la photo off à Paris, Galerie Arphil, Paris
2005
Festival [Foto 15], Paris, France
Celebrating 50 years of Leica M, Leica Gallery, New York City
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
36, rue Falguière
75015 Paris – France
www.ewgalerie.com
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Projection du collectif LocCit, Sala d’exposicions del CDAC, Manresa, Spain
Celebrating 50 years of Leica M, Institut Supérieur pour l’Étude du Langage
Plastique, Brussels
2004
Projection Descubrimientos, PhotoEspana, Madrid
Celebrating 50 years of Leica M, Leica, Photokina, Cologne, Germany
2003
Voies Off des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Sans titre, l’Appartement, les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles,
France
2002
Travaux des stagiaires et des Erasmus, École des Beaux Arts, Luminy, Marseille
Catalogues
Out of mind, Fotofestiwal Lodz, Poland 2011
Connivence, Festival Pingyao, China, 2010
Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
Bittersweet, Sandra Minchin, to be published
All my Lovin’, Fotofestiwal Lodz 2010
Kaunas Photo days, festival catalogue, 2006
Publications
(selection)
Art a part of culture, Website, 2012
Zoum Zoum, Libération Blog, France, 2012
Le Journal de la Photographie, Website, 2012
Photographie.com, 2012
De L’Air, march 2012
Página 12, Argentina, 2011
Images Magazine, Summer issue, France, 2011
Spot, Center for Photography Houston (vol.28), n°2, USA, 2010
Madam Magazine, Germany, 2010
Foto Noviny, Slovakia, 2010
Lens Culture, (vol.26), France, 2OO9
Photo Nouvelles, (n° 55), portfolio, France, 2009
Shots Magazine (n° 97), USA, 2007
Awards
Prix Virginia (Selection of the Jury), 2012
Prix Niépce (Nomination), 2010
Lens Culture International Awards, 2nd prize
Collections
BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), France
Sunnhordland Museum, Bergen, Norway
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Centre Manuel Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Leica
Collection Marin Karmitz
Collection Sir Mark Haukohl
Private collection in Europe, Morocco and in the USA
Carolle Benitah is a member of the Association LoCit
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
36, rue Falguière
75015 Paris – France
www.ewgalerie.com
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