Nathalie Audrain was born in Lyon in 1977. She lives and works near Paris. As both a translator and an artist, she uses various media including music, photography, drawing and poetic writing to express herself. Her synesthesia allows her to see numbers and certain letters in colour. She started taking photographs when she was a teenager, mostly of her family and friends who posed for her. She feels the need to create something beautiful, wanting to remember beauty in case it may disappear. She visually reproduces the impressions perceived by her other senses and considers her series of images as sensory and dreamlike journeys. She also takes her inspiration from literary figures such as Virginia Woolf to address themes dear to her. Her favourite subjects are love, childhood, chronic disease and synesthesia.
In 2018, she published a photo book called “Une part de jour assez douce” ("That mellow side of daylight"), which is about moments of life, which are at times lighthearted, at times more winding. It is told from a child’s point of view and from his mother’s. She exhibited the series at the Oblique Nuage gallery (Paris) in December 2019. She is a member of “Work Show Grow” (UK).
