Recent Work
The work shown here is taken from two separate projects and explores personal interaction with familial, historical and other social contexts. Diane made the first project entitled "Sunday Shots” in 2003. This series was taken using Polaroid process Sx-70, it tells about people and objects, as they are enveloped in a sustained and silent time. Diane Ducruet says "These pictures carry the traces of a daily life, almost as if they had escaped from everyday emotional wreckage. The setting might be a silent and grey Sunday when finally we are allowed to recover ourselves, retrieving memories or sensations escaped from childhood or love, our eyes surveying some bouquets or figurines lying on a table. Everything can become a landscape from which our imagination entwines both dream and reality". This project was selected by the Festival Off for the International meetings of Photography in Arles.

The second project called “Prolegomena to a German story” started in 2005 when Diane moved to Berlin. The photographs were taken in many different locations including The Stasi Museum, the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, in Athens and Kalavryta, and also in Normandy. The project is about the relationship one builds from commemorative places to private spaces. The work combines texts and images and has been presented in the French web magazine Purpose http://www.purpose.fr, at the Recyclart Gallery in Brussels 2006, and will be at The Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Torun Poland 2007.

After having studied in The School Of Visual Arts in France, Diane graduated in 2000 from the National School of Photography in Arles . She's now living and working in Berlin, dedicating her time to her personal work after having worked at the agency Photonica (Paris) from 2001 to 2005. Her work is mostly shown in Europe.