Margot Wallard

Born in 1978, Margot Wallard start photography at 16 years old.

In 1997, she realizes a series about Free party and organizes many exhibition in alternative space in Paris.
In 1999 she starts the Atelier Reflexe, promotion and creation place that treat the photographic research as artistic expression. She met artists such as Antoine, D’Agata, Michael Ackerman or Anders Petersen.
In 2001 she organizes during the international photographic festival of Arles projection of slide show everywhere in the city. She became the assistant of Véronique Bourgoin artist photographer and founder of Atelier Reflexe.
In 2004 she participates at the project EX-IN about public and private space, a book and an exhibition at the gallery Maeght of Barcelona presented this project. The same year a retrospective of her photography about free party are presented at the Heart Gallery in Paris.
She’s started the project No Name, No City. Her inspiration comes from their travels in Ukraine, Russia and China. A first exhibition of the project No Name No City was showed in the Museum Quarter of Vienna during the month of Photography in November 2004.
She collaborate in 2007 to the European project EU Women initiate by Véronique Bourgoin. Between 2008 and 2009 and exhibition, a cd-rom and a book of this project were presented in United States, Poland, France, Austria and Spain.

In 2008, she starts the project Guillaume and Sonia about his brother and the relation he had with her girlfriend, both are alcoholics. This project going to be publish by Journal edition, in 2013.
In 2010 she settled in Sweden and started a photography school Atelier Smedsby with the photographer JH Engström. www.atelier-smedsby.com. They have published two books together: Foreign Affair (2011) and 7 days, Athens, November 2011 (2012), both published by Super Labo edition.

In 2012 she started a new project, Natten, about her relationship with Swedish nature.