Sarah Balhadère is a French photographer based between Paris and Lyon. Her work, both intimate and poetic, combines documentary and narrative approaches, gently blending the everyday with memories. From commissioned work in the fashion world to reportage and portraits of artists and artisans, as well as personal projects inspired by her travels, she favors a natural approach, often outdoors, and a minimalist, luminous aesthetic, marked by the colors of the seasons, all while cultivating the practice of color printing.
Through her attention to the mundane and fragments of silent lives, she questions our relationship to territory, intimacy, and the environment. Her images compose sets of negative space, where the visible allows larger narratives to emerge, rooted in a society searching for its bearings.
From Naoshima to Sicily, by way of the island of Ouessant, Sarah Balhadère photographs light-filled landscapes using film, with a predilection for islands. Attentive to textures, colors, and horizons, she composes sunny and serene images, like open windows.