Email: lynn(at)lynnsk.fr
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Location: Paris, France.
Often travels in Algiers & Tunis.
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Lynn S.K. by Abdo Shanan
Après des études de cinéma, Lynn S.K. choisit la photographie afin d’élaborer une recherche en images autour de la sororité, la mémoire enfouie et l’entre-deux géographique, directement issue de sa propre histoire personnelle, ancrée entre la France et l’Algérie. Son travail autour de l’identité féminine et de l’adolescence l’amène à collaborer régulièrement avec des auteures telles que Virginie Despentes autour du film Bye-Bye Blondie ou Lola Lafon pour différents romans et albums notamment Une vie de voleuse.
Lynn participe à des expositions personnelles ou collectives en France et à l’international : Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, Mairie du 4ème, Paris (2019), les Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale, Niort (2019), Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne (2020), Bastion 23/Palais des Raïs, Alger (2017)… Elle travaille également en commande pour la presse ou des maisons d'édition : La Déferlante, Médiapart, Actes Sud...
L'artiste a été lauréate des Regards du Grand Paris porté par les Ateliers Médicis et le Cnap (2023), de la Grande Commande photographique du Ministère de la Culture pilotée par la BnF (2021), et du Soutien à la photographie documentaire du Cnap (2020). Elle a remporté plusieurs prix, dont le Sony World Photography Awards (2018), et a été nominée pour le Foam Paul Huf Award (2019), et le Cap Prize (2020).
Lynn est également mentor pour le Tilawin Project, plateforme de mentorat et d’échanges pour femmes photographes basées en Algérie et issues de la diaspora.
After studying cinema, Lynn S.K. opted for photography in order to develop research into images around sisterhood, buried memory and the geographical in-between, directly derived from her own personal history, rooted between France and Algeria.
Her work around female identity and adolescence led her to collaborate regularly with authors such as Virginie Despentes, for the film Bye-Bye Blondie, and Lola Lafon, espacially We are the birds of the coming storm.
Lynn has participated in solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad : Town Hall of the 4ème, Third Biennial of contemporary Arab world photography, Paris (2019), Encounters of Young International Photography, Niort (2019), Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne (2020), Bastion 23/Palais des Raïs, Algiers (2017). She also collaborates with the press and publishing houses : Actes Sud, la Déferlante, Actes Sud...
The artist was a laureate of the 'Regards du Grand Paris' supported by the Ateliers Médicis and the Cnap (2023), and of the great photographic commission of the french Ministry of Culture led by the BnF (2021), and the Support for Documentary Photography of the Cnap (2020).
She has won several awards, including the Sony World Photography Awards (2018), and has been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award (2019), and the Cap Prize (2020).
Lynn is also a mentor for the Tilawin Project, a mentoring and exchange platform for women photographers based in Algeria and from the diaspora.
Solo shows
2022 Alger, Tunis – Centre pour la Photographie, Gaillac.
2020 Sororités – Espace Magh, Brussels.
2019 Aller, retour –Town Hall of the 4ème, Third Biennial of contemporary Arab world photography, Paris.
2017 Sororités –Salon International du Livre, Algiers.
2017 Sororités –Les Glycines, Centre diocésain, Algiers.
2016 Rue Belouizdad, Alger – Galerie Joseph Antonin, Arles.
2010 Eclats – Espace 29, Bordeaux.
Grants
2023 Nominated for Prix Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland.
2022 Laureate of the great photographic commission of the french Ministry of Culture led by the Bnf, Paris, France.
2020 CNAP, Soutien à la photographie documentaire contemporaine, France.
2020 Nominated for the Cap Prize, The Contemporary African Photography Prize, Basel, Switzerland.
2019 Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2018 Commended Picture, « Portrait » category, Sony World Photography Awards, London, UK.
2018 Maghreb Photographer of the year, Maghreb Photography Awards, Morocco.
2017 Aide à la création, French Institute, Algiers, Algeria.
2016 Aide à la mobilité, French Institute, Algiers, Algeria.
Groups shows (selection)
2023 (to come) Rue Belouizdad, Alger, "Regards croisés", Galerie de La Manufacture, Aix en Provence.
2021 Still I Rise, le 109, Festival L’IMAGE_SATELLITE, Nice.
2021 Aller, retour, avec le Collective 220, Mostra de Valence du cinéma méditerranéen.
2020 Rue Belouizdad, Alger, "Narratives from Algeria", Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland.
2019 Entre-deux, "25 years of the Encounters of Young International Photography", Niort, France.
2017 Sororités, Regards affchés, Photographic encounters of Carcanières, France.
2017 Rue Belouizdad, Alger, "Encounters of Young International Photography", Niort, France.
2017 JE, TU, ELLES, Central Dupon Images, Paris.
2016 JE, TU, ELLES, Bastion 23, Palais des Raïs, Algiers.
2016 JE, TU, ELLES, Fabriek Noord, Queer Art Festival, Antwerpen.
2016 JE, TU, ELLES, Festival Raconte-Arts, Soumaa, Kabylie, Algeria.
2016 JE, TU, ELLES, Chapelle Sainte Anne, Arles.
2015 JE, TU, ELLES, Zabana national Museum, Oran, Algeria.
2015 JE,TU, ELLES, Galerie Civ.Oeil, Oran, Algeria.
2015 JE, TU, ELLES, avec la Galerie Joseph Antonin, Chapelle Sainte Anne, Arles.
2014 Ceci est mon corps, Auditorium Saint Germain, Langage des viscères, Paris.
2013 SHOW-ROOM I, Galerie Joseph Antonin, Voies off, Arles.
2012 Cabaret organique, with the collective Nyctalopes, Passage Choiseul, Paris.
2011 Underground, Galerie le Cabinet des Curieux, Paris.
2010 Les dissonances de l'adolescence, Immix Galerie, Paris.
2009 Eclats, Espace 29, Bordeaux, France.
2009 Eclats, Art Paris, Grand Palais, Heart Galerie, Paris.
2008 First night of contemporary photography, la Foire Saint-Germain, France.
2008 "Photographie alternative", Ynox Gallery invited by Maurice Renoma, Paris.
2008 Eclats, Heart galerie, Paris.
2007 Eclats, Kim Gallery, Paris.
Books & catalogues
2019 Publication of theThird Biennial of contemporary Arab world photography, Paris.
2017 Exhibition catalogue of the Encounters of Young International Photography, CACP Pérochon.
2017 Booklet, Sisterhood in south Algeria, commissionned by the CISP.
2016 Exhibition catalogue EROS ET NATURE – Galerie Joseph Antonin, Arles, France.
2015 Exhibition catalogue JE TU ELLES – Galerie Joseph Antonin.
2014 Exhibition catalogue FÉMINISMES – Galerie Joseph Antonin.
2012 Exhibition catalogue Le Cabaret Organique, with the collective Nyctalopes.
2010 Eclats, first book, Editions Ragage (Isbn n° 978-2-35955-027-6), 80 pages, 18x26 cm
Artistic residencies
2020/2021 Residency at Villa Arson, assignment of Université Côte d'Azur/ UCArts, Nice, France.
2017 CACP VILLA PEROCHON, residency guided by photographer Isabel Munoz, part of Encounters of Young International Photograph, Niort, France.
2015 Les Glycines, residency organized by the CISP, Algiers, Algeria.
Talks & workshops
2023 Workshop given as part of the Tilawin Project, Centre national d'art contemporain (CNAC), Grenoble, France.
2022 Talk with Silina Syan, Prune Phi et Contemporaines for the Nuit des Regards at the Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France.
2022 Round table discussion on delalates and informal markets in Algiers, with Sabrina Belouaar, Nabil Djedouani, Farès Yessad, La Galerie, Centre d'Art Art Contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France.
2021 Round-table discussion on collectives from the African continent, with Afrique in Visu, Institut Pour la Photographie, Lille, France.
2019 Exchange with Marie Richeux and Gabriel Bauret about the exhibition Aller, retour, during the Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.