Brigitte
Grignet

Brigitte Grignet

biography


Brigitte Grignet is a Belgian photographer focusing in a more personal type of documentary photography. She studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where she lived for 15 years. She worked with Mary Ellen Mark for 10 years and is represented by L’Agence VU’.

In 2011 she was rewarded with the Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant for the project she worked on for seven years in the south of Chile, “La Cruz del Sur,” where she recorded a way of life slowly disappearing, with its centuries-old social structures and cultural traditions. She received the Prize of the Minister of Culture (Photography Museum in Charleroi, Belgium) in 2017, the Marty Forscher Grant for Emerging Photographer in 2001, and the Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen from the Photography Museum in Charleroi in 2003.

She is a 2016 Magnum Emergency Fund Grantee for her project “Welcome,” that documents the reality of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Belgium.

Brigitte collaborated with Action Against Hunger in Guatemala, Colombia, and Palestine. She tells a story of people and their indomitable will to survive difficult situations and their continual quest to build and live within a life of dignity and grace.

Her work has been published among others in Newsweek, The New Yorker, Photo District News, Le Monde, FotoVisura, NPR 100 Words on Photography, Libération, El Pais, Days Japan, Lettre Internationale, Private, Granta.

Her images have been exhibited internationally and are included a.o. in the collections of the Kyosato Museum of Photography, The Photography Museum in Charleroi, the Portland Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Center of Creative Photography, the agnes b. collection.

series


Mexico, 2019

Série | After the years spent with Mary Ellen Mark, Mexico only existed in black and white in my world. It was inhabited by little girls with big dresses, circus acrobats, and lots of dogs.

Welcome, 2016

Series | Among those who go into exile, some are more vulnerable than others. In 2015 one in four asylum seekers in Europe was a child, some unaccompanied by parents, sent by them into exile because they saw no future for them at home.

Poland, 2016

Series | In 2016, I set off to explore Poland, after a conversation I had with a Polish friend, who was wondering about the future of her country.

Belgium, The Fishermen Children, 2014

Series | IBIS was created on the 6 of July 1906 by King Albert in Ostend (Belgium) to offer a home and a maritime school to orphan boys whose father had perished at sea.

Patagonia, The Damned and the Beautiful, 2012

Series | Aysén, Chile, a region of some 92.000 souls, sits in one of the most remote and undisturbed areas of the world.

Palestine, 2005-2008

Series | This work wants to reflect the difficulties faced by Palestinians, their indomitable will to survive difficult situations and the continual quest to build and live within a life of dignity and grace.

Chiloé - La Cruz del Sur, 2002-2008

Series | I recorded the Chilotes while that was still possible. The result is an account of a people who believe in ghost ships, witches, God, and the power of community.

Mexico, 2019

Série | After the years spent with Mary Ellen Mark, Mexico only existed in black and white in my world. It was inhabited by little girls with big dresses, circus acrobats, and lots of dogs.

Welcome, 2016

Series | Among those who go into exile, some are more vulnerable than others. In 2015 one in four asylum seekers in Europe was a child, some unaccompanied by parents, sent by them into exile because they saw no future for them at home.

Poland, 2016

Series | In 2016, I set off to explore Poland, after a conversation I had with a Polish friend, who was wondering about the future of her country.

Belgium, The Fishermen Children, 2014

Series | IBIS was created on the 6 of July 1906 by King Albert in Ostend (Belgium) to offer a home and a maritime school to orphan boys whose father had perished at sea.

Patagonia, The Damned and the Beautiful, 2012

Series | Aysén, Chile, a region of some 92.000 souls, sits in one of the most remote and undisturbed areas of the world.

Palestine, 2005-2008

Series | This work wants to reflect the difficulties faced by Palestinians, their indomitable will to survive difficult situations and the continual quest to build and live within a life of dignity and grace.

Chiloé - La Cruz del Sur, 2002-2008

Series | I recorded the Chilotes while that was still possible. The result is an account of a people who believe in ghost ships, witches, God, and the power of community.

Mexico, 2019

Série | After the years spent with Mary Ellen Mark, Mexico only existed in black and white in my world. It was inhabited by little girls with big dresses, circus acrobats, and lots of dogs.

Welcome, 2016

Series | Among those who go into exile, some are more vulnerable than others. In 2015 one in four asylum seekers in Europe was a child, some unaccompanied by parents, sent by them into exile because they saw no future for them at home.

Poland, 2016

Series | In 2016, I set off to explore Poland, after a conversation I had with a Polish friend, who was wondering about the future of her country.

Belgium, The Fishermen Children, 2014

Series | IBIS was created on the 6 of July 1906 by King Albert in Ostend (Belgium) to offer a home and a maritime school to orphan boys whose father had perished at sea.

Patagonia, The Damned and the Beautiful, 2012

Series | Aysén, Chile, a region of some 92.000 souls, sits in one of the most remote and undisturbed areas of the world.

Palestine, 2005-2008

Series | This work wants to reflect the difficulties faced by Palestinians, their indomitable will to survive difficult situations and the continual quest to build and live within a life of dignity and grace.

Chiloé - La Cruz del Sur, 2002-2008

Series | I recorded the Chilotes while that was still possible. The result is an account of a people who believe in ghost ships, witches, God, and the power of community.

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