Scarlett Coten dedicates herself essentially to long-term projects, exploring the themes of identity, gender, and intimacy.

Her art focuses on portraiture and seeks to shed light on the power dynamics present between photographers and their subject. While seemingly naturalist, paying tribute to documentary photography, her photographs are staged and realized with her subjects as a collaboration. This creative approach, by blurring fact and fiction, provokes a troubling truth, that of an authentic and yet totally orchestrated encounter.

Since 2012 the photographer explores the many shades of contemporary Masculinity by inviting male subjects' young generation to pose for her. In so doing her work raises questions on critical topics such as the notion of gender or identity, just like the question about who is looking at whom raises questions about the necessity of alternative viewpoints.

Coten is the winner of the Oskar Barnack Award 2016 and is part of the TOP 50 Critical Mass 2018