Description

Chloé Jafé was born in Lyon. After graduating from l’Ecole de Condé in Lyon, she went to Paris where she worked at Pin-Up studio. As a photographer’s assistant she acquired good experience in the fashion world, as well as technical competencies needed for this type of photography. She had the opportunity to collaborate with photographers such as Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jean-Paul Goude, Oliviero Toscani and others.
Specialising in People, her images are considered strong, dreamy and feminine.
Her style is marked by nostalgia which she processes with instant films, and for the large majority of her projects, achieved with a large format camera.
Chloe’s work is halfway between Art and Fashion.


“Him” is a series of photographs, poems and installations.
The photographs, which are in both black & white and colour, are mainly self-portraits.
They attempt to tell the story of a quest for a man, and illustrate different states of mind during the search.
The wanted man is Japanese, that is why the first part of the series has been shot in London and the second part in Japan.
The poems go with the images but do not try to tell the story; they appear just like other pictures.
The installations are items from the actual story (fish, book, rail pass...) which are framed. (27x33cm black frame)
The project is based on a true story, but it flits between dream and reality. The installations appear as fragments of reality.
The photographs are enlarged Instant Film realised with a large format camera for one part and a Polaroid camera for another part.
This project has been influenced by the surrealist and the dada movements.

www.chloejafe.com