A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Catherine Balet started a career as a painter before switching to photography in the early 2000s. Whether for her portraits of teenagers, her atmospheric scenes in the series Strangers in the Light or her late tribute to the Masters of photography, she anchors her art in contemporary reality while linking it to references from past culture.
She has exhibited widely in France and abroad: at Polka Gallery, Colette, Paris Photo, the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, the Cité de l’Image in Luxembourg, the Triennial of photography in Hamburg ...
Her photos have been awarded the Taylor Wessing Photographic prize in London National Portrait Gallery and nominated for the "Prix Pictet ».
She has published three books: Identity (Steidl), Strangers in the light (Steidl) and Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden Shoes (Dewi Lewis) which was shortlisted for the Prix du livres at the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles 2016.
