Born in 1976, Sabrina Mariez has led two lives, at least. The first one was dedicated to scientific research. She studied for five years analytical chemistry, before deciding to devote herself to photography. From a science consisting in the study of the chemical components of materials, she’s gone towards an art of revealing, on photographic film, the inner substrates of an identity.
This search is plainly visible in her last portfolios. One is about gender - for which French transvestites accepted to pose in all their flaming fragility. Another one was taken during summer 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia. Each time, Sabrina Mariez’s goal was to capture the familiar and the otherness, to seize something of the truth inside each character, beyond appearance.
So we meet faces. Looks, often thoughtful. Surroundings where a color, an incongruous object, give us echo of the strangeness that resonates in every life. Each element is deeply pesent. Places. People. Some very known. Other anonymous. Each unique. All printed, henceforth, in our memory.

Mail : s.mariezfree.fr

EXHIBITIONS / COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTIONS
Les rencontres photographiques du Xe arrondissement. Paris, France, « L’homme est une femme comme les autres » - 2/11 to 28/11/2015

Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Award. Collective exhibition, Parvis des Libertés et des Droits de l’Homme, Trocadéro, Paris - 28/09/2015

Festival MAP (Mise au Point), Toulouse, Portraits d’enfants, exposition collective - 1/09 to 30/09/2015
Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Award. Collective exhibition, Hôtel de Béthune-Sully, Paris IVe. 01/10 to 15/11/2013

AWARDS /HONOURS

2014-15 :

MAP Toulouse (Mise au Point) competition finalist, Portraits d’enfants Jury : Samuel Lugassy, Thierry Böuet and the MAP team

Selection in the « Portrait et ses états » section of the Toulouse MAP (mise au point) Festival _« L’homme est une femme comme les autres » series

Selection Les Boutographies Festival _« L’homme est une femme comme les autres » series.

2013 :

Jury’s honors - Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche, PHPA competition -Photo d’Hôtel, photo d’Auteur. Jury : Alain Bizotti

Hensel competition winner - Réponse photo - « Portrait en intérieur » presided by Sylvie Hugues
Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Award commpetition winner
Kodak prize - Nation Photo Paris

Publications :
Libération,Vous Magazine, Jazz Magazine, Die Zeit, Télérama, MUZIQ, Gonzaï, Le Rock, Funk*U, Réponse Photo, Edith Magazine, Libération

Références : Universal Music, Capitol Music France, Groupe Alpha, Atlantes