Séverine Sajous

BIOGRAPHIE

B. 1981, Pau, France. Currently based in Barcelona I'm a visual artist and storyteller working with both photography and film. I studied linguistics at the University Paul Valery, Montpellier, but went to work as an accountant upon graduation. In 2014, after 9 years in accounting, I decided to radically change my life and left my job and went into the arts, combining my two passions, communication and visual documentary practise. I’m deeply interested in people and the human condition and I like to work in collaboration with my subjects, allowing them room to develop their own artistic capabilities and express themselves directly. I use the visual medium to engage with the world and to push for more critical thinking. Most of my work to date has focused on migration and refugee issues. In 2015, I co-founded the Jungleye association which engages communities through participatory practice with photography. I combine teaching with the association in different contexts, with my own photography and film projects. I'm currently working on a trilogy of short films that explore migration and the concept of borders through semantics: "Mot de Passe: Fajara", (2017) tells the story of those crossing from France to the UK through the Channel Tunnel. My first short is awarded in differents festivals. "#boza" (2020) tells te story of people from sub-saharan Africa making the crossing from Morocco into Spain. It is a collection of first person narratives and Selfies to build the picture of their journey. The final film "Harka" is a work in progress. I’m working with mothers of people who have dissapeared making the sea journey from Tunisia to Italy, and looking at how much the role of family in the act of migration. I have published work in the European press and internationally, and my work has been exhibited in both collective and solo exhibitions. I am member of Women Photograph

FILMOGRAPHIE