Eleonora Strano
Women Photograph
Nice, France
Eleonora Strano is a freelance photographer based in France.
She first studied Physics, then Linguistics and Photography in Paris and worked for two years as a linguistic attachée in Bangkok, Thailand.
Then, in 2009 she won the EMI CFD International Photojournalism Prize and studied for 7 months at EMI CFD school in Paris.
For more than 10 years she has been working on themes linked to isolation. Whether it is geographical, cultural, social, or political.
Her work has been shown in France, Italy, Germany, Cambodia and received numerous awards.
It has been presented in June 2011 at le BAL in Paris, in a collective show «Se dérober» in Musée de la Photographie de Mougins in 2013 and in Paris at the Photography Fair «La Quatrième Image» where it won the third prize.
In october 2014 she was finalist for the Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère Grant for Photography.
In November 2018, she was one of the 31 women photographers to watch for according to the British Journal of Photography and her work has been shown at the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan.
This year, her work has been show at Centre Photographique de Marseille, will be part of Jeune Création in Paris in November and «Ignatia Amara» will be shown in Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux, as part of a regional project called «Des marches, démarches».
In July and August she will be finishing her personal project «The dark embrace» in the Roya Valley.
Eleonora Strano regularly works for International Medias such as Die Zeit, Forbes Russia, Libération, Le Monde, Le M du Monde, La Croix, Gotenborgs Posten, L’Obs, Bloomberg Editorial, Marianne, Pèlerin Magazine, L’Express, Phosphore, Courrier International, Les Jours.
Eleonora Strano is a member of Hans Lucas, Women Photograph and Blink and works for clients such as Cartier, Huawei, Airbnb Luxury, Freuds, Bloomberg Editorial, Monoprix, Geneva International Film Festival.
2018 - Pre-selected at Brouillon d'un Rêve de la SCAM, 2018 - Pre-selected at Mécènes du Sud Grant , 2018 - 100Heroines, 2018 - Finalist PrixMentor Session #4 , 2016 - FUAM Istanbul, 2015 - Prix mentor - Freelens , 2014 - MIFA - Moscow International Foto Award , 2014 - Encontros da imagem - Portugal, 2014 - La Quatrième image - Paris , 2014 - ISSP - Nico Baumgarten workshop , 2014 - Fondation Lagardère , 2009 - EMI CFD International Photojournalism Prize - Fr
- Advertising
- Architecture
- Audio capture
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Fashion
- Interior
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Still life
- Video capture
- Russian
- English
- French
- Italian