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Snapshots | Romy Alizée

France
2019
fr
en
19'

Direction: Thomas Goupille

In the privacy of her apartment, we discover Romy Alizée, directing bodies (women, men & non binary) with unabashed sexuality, in search of intensity and beauty. Captured in flash, her photos affirm the power of a very personal sexual aesthetic, never devoid of humour. Between directing shoots and hanging her exhibition, the photographer unzips the heart of her work and unveils her new project: documenting sex workers far from the images they get stuck with.

Snapshots | Romy Alizée

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Synopsis

In the privacy of her apartment, we discover Romy Alizée, directing bodies (women, men & non binary) with unabashed sexuality, in search of intensity and beauty. Captured in flash, her photos affirm the power of a very personal sexual aesthetic, never devoid of humour. Between directing shoots and hanging her exhibition, the photographer unzips the heart of her work and unveils her new project: documenting sex workers far from the images they get stuck with.

What you will find in this film

Three shoots with Romy Alizée • The various faces of her self-portraits • Her photographic journey • The ongoing composition of her images • Work with film and self timer • Research into the positioning of bodies when the photographer is facing the lens • The ’architecture of her book FURIE • Chats with her models • What drives Romy Alizée in photography • A certain sexuality among women • Her project to document sex workers • Her colours • Her black and whites • The need to reclaim rejection and shame about sex work • New accessories

Keywords

Black & White Erotic photography Women photographers Analogue photogaphy

What underpins everything I do is transforming a place of fragility, a place of shame and stigma, into a place of strength and power.

Romy Alizée Photographe

Film chapters

summary 00:00 Diary, explicit photos and portraits

summary 07:35 Seizing land denied to women

summary 13:05 Colour for sex workers

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The authors/artists

Thomas Goupille

Further exploration

• TOF ZINE #2 LE CLUB DES FEMMES - artist: Romy Alizée ; 2019 ; 476 edition

• FURIE - artist: Romy Alizée ; 2018 ; Maria Inc editions

• FANZINE : LES CROCS ÉLECTRIQUES #39 - 2017

• FIST - a collective work directed by Laure Giappiconi, Elisa Monteil and La Fille Renne (2021)

• ROMY & LAURE… ET LE MYSTÈRE DU PLUG ENCHANTÉ - directed by Laure Giappiconi and Romy Alizée (2021)

• ROMY & LAURE… ET LE SECRET DE L’HOMME MEUBLE - directed by Laure Giappiconi and Romy Alizée (2019)

Romy Alizée’s website

Fury at The Censorship of The Net by Romy Alizée - Curated by Girls Article

Romy Alizée - Intimate Structures Page

Romy Alizée page at Hans Luca’s Studio