Chantal STOMAN
Chantal STOMAN

































Biography
Chantal Stoman is a French, Paris-based photographer.
The work of Chantal Stoman is part of an approach based on a thorough observation of the relationship between man and his intimacy and the City.
She began with A WOMAN’S OBSESSION, observing the special relationship between Japanese women and the world of European luxury brands.
Broadening her focus, it is from the elevated freeways that Chantal Stoman continued to observe the humanity hidden in the heart of the major cities of the world with LOST HIGHWAY, A PHOTO PROJECT. Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Cairo, Hong Kong, Mumbai, LOST HIGHWAY tells this tale shared by the great cities, where borders no longer exist.
This passion for the contemporary and its massive embodiment – the «city-world», in a continuous extension from Tokyo to Sao Paulo – does not hinder the sensivity of her vision of the vertical city and how we live in the thickness of Time.
The work realized by Chantal Stoman, first in Rome, then in Jerusalem, through her projects L’IMAGE CULTE and WALKING DISTANCE, testifies to a tropism towards «myth cities». These cities narrate History and their history so profoundly. Her attention to details – the tracking of a sense, a direction – introduces a questioning, a poetic suspense, adding to the photography the promise of a continuation.
In 2016, invited for an artist-in-residence in Cambodia, she immersed herself in the intimacy of Phnom Penh, a city she knew nothing about, giving birth to a new project ; VIEWS.
Chantal Stoman is now working on a new photographic project entitled ŌMECITTA, thanks to the CNAP’s support for contemporary documentary photography. A complementary video project between cinema, art and documentary is also in progress.
2019
Eternelles, Regard croisés Jerusalem / Rome, Galerie SIT DOWN, Paris
2018
Ōmecittà, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Ginza
2017
Walking Distance, Institut Français Romain Gary, Jerusalem
2016
VIEWS, Studio Images, Institut Français Cambodia, Phnom Penh
2015
Lost Highway, projection et performance live, Silencio d’Eté / Maison de Aiguebrun
Lost Highway, Maison d’Architecture en Île de France, Festival Ville et Cinéma, Paris
2014
L’Image Culte, Projection, Le Silencio, Paris
2013
Lost Highway, Manga Museum, Nuit Blanche, Kyoto
2010
Lost Highway, tramway installation , Festival Plaisirs d’Hiver, Brussels
2006
A Woman’s Obsession, Nexus Foundation, Tokyo
2005
Le Pletzel, Institut Français, Barcelone
2003
Personal exhibition, Première Vision, Paris
1999
Personal exhibition, Galerie PONS, Paris
1997
Personal exhibition, Cinémathèque française, Jerusalem
2017
VIEWS, Conservatoire de Montreuil, Mois de la Photo Grand Paris
2016
VIEWS, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap
L’Image Culte, Sept Off / Festival de la photographie Méditerranéenne #18, Chapelle Santa Maria de Olivo, Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Lost Highway, BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, Breda , Pays-Bas
Lost Highway, ciné-concert, Chapiteau de la Fontaine aux Images, Clichy-sous-bois
2014
L’Image Culte, Espace Wanted Paris, Mois de la Photo, Paris
L’Image Culte, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Festival Fotografia, Rome
2013
Lost Highway, Studio X Mumbai, Festival “Bonjour India”, Bombay
2012
Lost Highway, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Mois de la photo, Paris
Lost Highway, Light Box project, Nuit Blanche, Installation, Palais de Chaillot, Paris
2009
Lost Highway, Nuit Blanche (station de métro « Châtelet »), Paris
Collective exhibition, Fundacion provincial de artes plasticas Rafael Boti, Cordoue
2007
A Woman’s Obsession, FIAF Gallery, New York
2006
A Woman’s Obsession, Mois de la Photo, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris
1996
Collective exhibition, Festival International de la Photographie de Mode, Monaco
2018 Ōmecittà (à paraître bientôt)
2017 VIEWS, Phnom Penh, Editions Rue du Bouquet
2016 Walking Distance, Coll. Portrait de Ville, Editions Be-Pôles
2014 L’Image Culte, Editions Le Joker
2012 Lost Highway, More, Factory Editions
2006 A Woman’s Obsession, La Martinière (Epuisé)
2004 Maw Money, Steidl
2002 Strip, Steidl
2018 CNC Book Awards for OMECITTA
2017 Prize for contemporary documentary photography, CNAP, France
2012 Premio dos Caminos de Hierro, Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, Madrid.
2008 III Premio Internacional de Fotografia Contemporanea Pilar Citoler, Edita Fundacion
Provincial de Artes Plasticas Rafael Boti, Universidad de Cordoba.