Zénon (Sophie)

Before turning to photography in 2004, Sophie Zénon studied modern history and art history in Rouen, ethnology and religion studies in northern Asia shamanism in Paris, and then embraced various careers – bookseller, television documentalist, photography agency editor… As a self-taught photographer, she alternates work of a documentary order with that of an artistic, visual nature, but with the same fascination for all that touches on ritual, sacrament or mystery. A seasoned traveler, Sophie Zénon began her work in contact with new cultures first of all, notably those of Mongolia, Siberia and Cambodia, before coming back to the research themes she favors: disappearance, memory, transmission.