New work
Stephanie Cardon says "In each one of the projects I have taken on, whether photographing the rituals of a boarding school or scouting the New England countryside at night for a threatening cast on a banally quaint house, I am often in search of some evidence of intimacy (though at times by opposition). Largely interpretative and subjective, photographs can single out a gesture or an object and heighten its significance unrealistically. I like to play with this aspect of the medium and draw attention to the smaller histories, or exaggerate the dramatic content of a scene, to document what might otherwise go unnoticed. Perception and reality are not one and the same here"

A freelance photographer based in Paris, Stephanie Cardon received a B.A. in History and French from Oxford University before picking up photography. She is a graduate of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York where she studied under Robert Blake and Sam Samore. In 2002-2003, she was a resident at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie in Arles (France) and her photographs were subsequently a part of the summer Voies Off festival. Her art-work has been published by several magazines such as Camera Austria, Photos Nouvelles and Art Review. This October, she was an artist-in-residence at the Ucross

Foundation in Wyoming and the Franco-American Institute of Rennes (France) will be hosting her first solo show in January 2006.

Cardon doubles as an interior design and architecture photographer for magazines such as Côté Ouest. Her first book, French Country Hideaways, was just published by Rizzoli.