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Photo by: Sophie Zenon
Sophie Zenon
Photographer
After centuries of suppression and outright persecution, monoglian shamanism is thriving. In the past two decades, a vast number of shamans have appeared and reappeared in Mongolia, in teh capital Oulan-Bator as in the countryside. Historian and anthropologist researcher, french photographer Sophie Zenon was born in 1965 in Normandy (France). She has been travelling across Asia for more than ten years now. She spent a lot of time in Mongolia (1996-2009), Siberia (2000-2002) and CAmbodia (2005-2009), capturing both the enormous grandiosity of these areas and the population’s harmony with nature and the divine. Sophie Zenon alternates between work of a documentary nature and the approach of a visual artist with the same fascination for what touches on ritual, the sacred, and mystery. Her universe is tinged with magic, as if shamanism – the subject of her university studies – had the power to suddenly appear in her images. Since her first exhibition in 2000, she leads a rigorous personnel work, creating a universe of great delicacy, visibly peaceful. Her work received increasing international recognition, exhibiting in galleries, museums and festivals in France, China, CAmbodia, Taiwan, Portugal, Russia, Bangladesh. Her work has been acquired by private collectors and public institutions including the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris. Through these last years, she published six books.