Diane Givry French

Diane Givry is a photographer from Haute-Savoie whose work is rooted in an intimate and sensitive approach to the image. Through a predominantly analog practice, in black and white, she develops a restrained visual language, attentive to form, light, and the presence of bodies. Self-taught, she has gradually built her perspective, refining both her technique and her way of staging her subjects.

 

Her work primarily focuses on portraiture, self-portraiture, and the female body, while also extending to still life and vegetal forms. Through these subjects, she explores self-representation, fragility, and the impermanence of things. Above all, she seeks a form of simple beauty, free from artifice, where the subject exists for itself, in a direct presence. Her inspiration is mainly nourished by external elements: atmospheres, sensations, and observations of everyday life.

 

In her portraits, often silent and timeless, Diane Givry favors a great simplicity of staging. She works with models, particularly women, whom she photographs in assertive postures and direct gazes, seeking to convey a sincere presence, without imposed narrative. Her images thus propose an encounter: that of a body, a face, a moment.