Contact – About | Violette Franchi

phone: +33 7 68 85 14 58

currently based : Nice & Paris, France

languages: French, English

Violette Franchi (b. 1995) is a French photographer and filmmaker based between Nice (France) and London.

After becoming an architect in 2017, Violette Franchi pursued photography and took classes at the National School Louis-Lumière in Paris. In 2020, she graduated from the Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She received the ICP Director’s Merit Fellowship and the Documentary Arts Fellowship for her project Crossroads, questioning the American Dream in a Brooklyn large-scale housing urban landscape.

Her general practice focuses on what homes are, on an intimate and public scale, in their abstract and structural forms.

Publications and Commissions (selected) : The New York Times • i-D • Vice • Fisheye Magazine • NEON • Les César • Aéroports de Paris (Paris Airports) • Museums of Orsay and Orangerie • Canon Development Programme • Café du Cycliste • A Photo Editor • Circulations