Art Gallery
Stephanie Desvaux
Stephanie Desvaux, born in Mauritius in 1969, is given her first camera at the age of twelve. Stephanie explains that she has always viewed her practice as a passion, which means experimenting and relying on intuition to dictate her self-taught practice. She photographs mechanically, without giving it much thought. She does not mull over the possibilities of a theme for instance. Her practice is a meditation; intrinsic and organic. But it is also graphic: she sees things the way she sees them; in black and white or in colour. Colour, whether high-keyed and vibrant or soft and subtle, dominates her choice. She is preoccupied with finding a sense of balance and harmony. Stephanie is a purist: When she produces a series with a wide angle, she does not switch lenses halfway through. And when she does, it is to shoot a whole new series. Using logic she creates her own pictorial language, injecting her own sensibility into our perception of the image —thereby imbuing it with pictorial meaning.
