Caroline Minjolle (born in 1964 in Tarbes, France) worked as a ballet dance in Bonn (Germany) and Bern (Switzerland) between 1981 and 1986 after she finished her education in Paris. She has been living in Zurich (Switzerland) since 1988 and working as a freelance photographer since 1992.
For more than 20 years, Caroline Minjolle has combined still and moving images on different levels in her professional career and has dealt with the body as a means of expression, as a dancer on stage, as a photographer behind and in front of the camera. The representation of the human being, staged or spontaneously captured in everyday life, forms the thematic thread that connects her various fields of work in a patchwork-like manner. Besides free projects she regularly works for newspapers, national museums, educational programms and various contemporary dance companies.
In 2020 she is one of the photographers and editors of the collective photobook "WIR/NOUS" (wir-nous.ch) about the Swiss national women's strike of 2019. In 2021 Minjolle hat worked on a large scale project with 49 other female photographers on the 50th anniversary of women's vote in Switzerland (www.50-50-50.ch).
Her long term project RENDEZ-VOUS (1995-ongoing) has been exhibited at the Fotofestival Lenzburg (CH) and Kaunas Photo Festival (Lithuania) and Haus für Kunst Uri (CH). Monozygotes has been exhibited in Switzerland and published as a limited edition in 2022.
