Charlotte Abramow
Charlotte Abramow was born in Belgium in 1993 and has been having fun with cameras since she was 7. At 16 years old, she was marked by her meeting with Paolo Roversi while interning at the Rencontres d’Arles. She started taking comissions as soon as she turned 17. In 2013, aged 19, she moves to Paris in order to study at Gobelins, L’École de l’Image. Her work is rewarded with the Picto Prize of Young Fashion Photography in 2014. A month after graduating in June 2015, she reached the finals of Photo Folio Review Awards at the Rencontres d’Arles. She exhibited her project on body diversity “The Real Boobs” during the Nuit de l’Année des Rencontres. In 2017, she created the entire visual design of the album “BROL” by Angèle. At 24 years old, Charlotte becomes a filmmaker and notably directs video clips for Angèle (“La loi de Murphy”, “Je Veux tes Yeux” and more recently “Balance Ton Quoi”) but also for George Brassens’ “Les Passantes”. She released her first book “Maurice, Tristesse et rigolade”, which retraces the life, sickness and redemption of her father. Charlotte Abramow has had exhibitionsat Paris Photo 2018 (Fisheye Gallery) with her series “They Love Trampoline” on the Faroe Islands, then in New York’s Richard Taittinger Gallery in 2019 for the collective exhibition “The Female Lens”. In 2020, she conceptualized and directed “Le Petit Manuel Sex Education” for Netflix, at the occasion of the release of Sex Education season 2. This 64 pages-long editorial object about sex education is made of photographs and texts and 75 000 copies have been freely distributed across France. In 2021, she held her first personal exhibition “Première Page” at Arles’ Fisheye Gallery, then her first solo show “Started from the Body” in the USA, at the Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York. She took part in the video project “H24 – 24h dans la vie d’une femme” by directing the episode “12H – Le Cri Défendu” broadcasted in prime time on Arte. In 2022, she created the Semaine de la Critique’s poster as well as Suzane’s video clip for “Clit Is Good”, starring Victoria Abril. From spring to fall 2022, she held the “PIQUÉES” exhibition on women beekeepers and bees, at Maison Guerlain on the Champs Élysées. In September 2022, Charlotte Abramow finally held her first personnal exhibition in Belgium, “Volle Petrol” at Brussel’s Hangar, until December 17, 2022.
