About Laurence Chellali

My very first photographic experience goes back while I worked as journalist for a French daily newspaper. I was brought to draft texts for websites and it is rather naturally that my taste for the design and the image made me slide towards Web design's job. A first expatriation in Italy was the occasion of a decisive re-discovery: since I couldn't work because I couldn't speak Italian, the camera would be from then the instrument with which I could express my vision of the world.

I'm mainly an everyday life photographer. If exoticism is for many in the elsewhere, I draw my lot of discoveries and questions in the simple life. And I see poetry there. A lot. Sometimes light, disturbing, sad, deep or frivolous, these visions are the mirrors of my emotions that cradle the photographic illusion. This positioning towards the world is vital for me to continue to look at it with grace.

Since 2013 I work for 2 photo agencies and I teach photography.