Olivia de Villaine (b. 1985) is a swiss photographer currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. Her work has been featured in PhotoVogue as Pic of the day three times in 2022. Her practice explores the intensity, beauty and anarchy of early motherhood.
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photoSCHWEIZ 2023
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My work concentrates on small details of motherhood and the early life of children. Focusing on details enables me to capture moments of life that will at the end populate the vast picture of memory. Based on that idea, the rendition of my photographs, through a play of light, reminds the one of paintings, as if the work of memory, by the idea of a certain distance between the model and me taking the picture, had already started.
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