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NEW YORK, NY, JUNE 2009 - Photographs from Sophie Delaporte’s Early Fashion Work series will be on view at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery during New York’s Fall Fashion Week from September 17th through October 30th 2009. This is Sophie Delaporte’s first solo exhibition in New York City. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, September 17th from 6-9 pm at the gallery.
Born in 1971 in Paris, Sophie Delaporte studied photography and film at the art school Louis Lumière in Paris. After graduating, she moved to London and started to work for the English press.
During the 90’s, her first publications appeared in I-D magazine.
In this period of time she has achieved an accomplished style, a photographic language where sweetness balances innocence and determination outweighs diversion. The depth of color, staging, gestures and simple fun of her imagery evoke the world of storytelling. The photographer likes to imagine situations that do not exist, creating unusual combinations between the image and the purpose it serves.
“ A fashion photograph capable of exceeding the lifetime of a monthly magazine requires a certain duplicity. This duplicity is the photographer’s who undertakes selling a product while hiding the secret ambition of creating art. The fashion photograph defines itself between the lines of this dichotomy... Some of these young photographers - and Sophie Delaporte is the most shining example - keep the evidence of a certain ambivalence between the limitations of both cultural and creative in the genre they have chosen. In 1994, when I discovered the work of Sophie Delaporte, it fascinated me,” said Martin Harrison. (1)
The construction of each scenario reveals a creature from an abstract dream that mixes fantasy and reality. Women are between two ages and often rooted in childhood, far from conventional representation. “I like images that are not obvious and leave room for interpretation, those that offer several levels of reading,” said Delaporte. The photographer draws inspiration from poetry “for its surreal and shifted world”. She also draws from Matisse, 1930s photography, the films of Fellini and Godard, and Guy Bourdin for his free association of images within the fashion world.
Sophie Delaporte soberly assumes her freedom as a woman and a photographer. Her approach, both invigorating and innovative, whispers a wish to break free of social pressure. It murmurs the possibility of a world of fantasy by suggestin g a n a lt ernative vision of fashion photography.

Sophie Delaporte’s work is frequently featured in numerous books and publications such as Another Magazine, Italian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Interview and I-D Magazine with whom she has continued to collaborate with regularly.
Her work has been shown in two solo exhibitions for Gallery Marion Meyer in Paris and Scream Gallery in London, which coincided with the London Fall Fashion Week in 2008. She has also taken part in group exhibitions and international art fairs including Art Chicago, Bâle Miami, Photo London, Works on Paper New York and Art Paris.

Shows and Exhibitions:
2009 Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, NY
2008 Needlework, Scream Gallery, UK
2007 Works on Paper, Galerie Marion Meyer, NY
2006 Who’s that girl? Vanina Holasek Gallery, NY
2006 Photo London, Galerie Marion Meyer, UK
2005 ST’ART 05, international art fair, Strasbourg, France
2005 Works on Paper, Galerie Marion Meyer, NY
2004 The Abused Eye, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris
2004 Art Chicago, USA, Galerie Marion Meyer
2003 Art Paris, Galerie Marion Meyer
2002 Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris
1998 Biennal of Firenze, Italy
1997 Group show, Jeremy Scott, at Colette, Paris
1997 Group show, 50 years of la Maison Saint Laurent, NY
1996 FPIM, Biarritz
1994 FPIM, Carrousel du Louvre,Paris