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Corinne Vionnet




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Having decided to return and examine the landscapes I have known all my childhood and teenage years, I retraced, on foot, the Rhone plain, following its river from the Glacier to the Geneva Lake.

Now that I have crossed a part of this area and that I have glanced at these spaces that have been hidden deep in my memory, I have been surprised of my lack of nostalgia. I had this wish to go back to my origins and I had the ambitious wish to understand a little of my heritage. In fact, I pretended to rediscover these landscapes and to understand their history. My imagination about these places has amply substituted for my lack of memory.

Thus these photographs seem to waiver between the wish to remember and the wish to simply photograph this region.

French and Swiss photographer Corinne Vionnet lives and works in Switzerland. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections in Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, including the Centro de Fotografia in Tenerife, Spain. Publications include Vevey Ville d'Images, published in 2008. She has participated in various collective and individual exhibitions in Europe. In 2008, she received the Honorable Mention prize for Singular Image, juror Jen Bekman, at the Santa Fe Center for Photography in New Mexico, USA. Her series "Photo Opportunities" was published recently in Yvi magazine (Netherlands) and shown in summer 2008 at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, USA, for the 13th Annual Photographic Competition exhibition, juror Rod Slemmons, and last October at the Singapore international photography festival. This Series received the Arte Laguna Virtual Prize, section "Photographic Art", in Venice, Italy and the 2008 Culturas "Languages; Zeros and Ones" second prize, in Madrid, Spain. 2009 exhibitions include The Opal Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, presenting a collaborative work with William Boling called "Complete Desire", exhibition curated by Susan Todd-Raque, and a solo show in the first exclusive photography-dedicated gallery in Dubai, The Empty Quarter.