Karine Le Ouay, author-photographer, is based in Paris.
From her childhood in South America, she has retained a sensitivity to colours, smells and light. A graduate of Celsa-Paris IV Sorbonne, she began her career in communications, particularly in the music industry. In 2017, her encounter with Robert Doisneau's daughters encouraged her to set up as a professional photographer. She started out in press photography before joining the Divergence Images collective in 2023.
Alongside her commissioned and portrait work, Karine Le Ouay is developing personal series centred on a sensitive writing of everyday life, on the borderline between documentary and poetic. She explores her surroundings to create cinematic atmospheres imbued with gentle nostalgia, elegance, sensuality and mystery.
Karine Le Ouay is a member of the Divergence collective, distributed by Galerie Taylor, and featured in Fisheye magazine and L'Oeil de la Photographie. Her work has been exhibited by Leica, Photodoc-Paris and the Union des Photographes Professionnels. She won the Audience Award at the Nuits photographiques de Pierrevert in 2023. Her photographs have been published in the collective work Ce monde-là, v
