About Joanna Maclennan

I have been a professional photographer for the past 17 years. Having grown up in England, I moved to France in my early thirties and never looked back.

I love to travel, exploring different cultures and meeting new people – not to mention art, design and flea markets. In fact, anywhere and anything that has a deep sense of time and place. I am always drawn to faces and objects that tell a story.

I used to work mainly with film and a Hasselblad camera; analogue photography taught me to take time. The process was unhurried, which suited my life philosophy and art perfectly. Even now into the digital world of photography, I've kept this approach, seeking that precise shot, as opposed to firing off a thousand and leaving it to good fortune. Thanks to this “Less is more” philosophy, I am able to get the depth and richness that I'm looking for, my photographs made atmospheric by differing textures and shadows.

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