BIOGRAPHY
Anne-Charlotte Moulard is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the boundaries between photography, cinema and documentary. Through long-term projects, she examines how we perceive reality, weaving together memory, fiction and lived experience.
Her images often emerge from territories undergoing change, taking the form of visual narratives in which portraiture plays a central role. Rather than simply depicting her subjects, she seeks to bring characters to life. Staging, light, locations and objects become elements of a narrative that leaves viewers free to imagine what came before and what comes after.
Educated in Paris and London (Penninghen, Gobelins, Central Saint Martins and ENS Louis-Lumière), she has been developing her own artistic practice for nearly twenty years, alongside projects for brands and cultural institutions.
Her work has received several awards and has been presented at festivals and institutions in France and internationally. Her project Stella, developed over nearly twenty years, is currently being exhibited at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles and will be published as a monograph by Four Eyes in autumn 2026.
ARTIST STATEMENT
How do people become who they are through the places they inhabit, and how can images preserve the invisible connections between people, places and time?
Anne-Charlotte Moulard develops a body of work at the intersection of photography and cinema, in which the still image often serves as the starting point for a narrative that film extends by shifting perspectives. She explores how places shape people, influence their paths through life and inform their memories.
Working across documentary, fiction, portraiture and personal narrative, she photographs and films people rooted in a particular place. Locations are never mere backdrops: they hold stories, dreams, absences and memories. Rather than capturing the decisive moment, she stages memory, moving between lived experience and reconstructed recollection. Her images thus become a way of holding on to time, allowing intimate stories and collective memory to coexist.
Northern France lies at the heart of her practice. She explores its poetry, inhabited landscapes and everyday mythologies to construct a visual narrative rooted in the region yet open to universal themes. Through staged portraits, family histories and places undergoing change, she seeks to bring forth a contemporary mythology of her region.
Following in the footsteps of American photographers who have shaped the image of their own territories, she seeks to tell the stories of landscapes where families, gestures and places become characters in a collective history. Here, too, vast horizons and pioneer narratives exist, while the notion of the ‘right to the horizon’ serves as a reminder of the need to preserve these landscapes.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2027 Artist Residency, La Piscine, Brest, France
2025–2026 Franco-German Artist Residency between Essen and Clermont-de-l’Oise, organised by Diaphane
2024–2025 Artist Residency at Château Coquelle, Dunkirk, as part of the 2024 cultural call for projects by the Fondation des Petits Frères des Pauvres, Les aînés sous les projecteurs — Illuminating Age Through Culture
2023 Screenwriting Workshop, selected by Pictanovo, Lille, France
2022 Artist Residency at Planches Contact Festival, selected by the Photo4food Foundation, Deauville, France
PUBLICATIONS
La Petite Folie, Éditions Light Motiv, February 2027
Stella, Four Eyes Éditions, November 2026
Danser sous la pluie, published by Château Coquelle, November 2025
Planches Contact Catalogue, Filigranes Éditions
FILMOGRAPHY
2026 Stella-Missouri, feature film in development (screenwriting)
2025 Slip, short film co-written with Capucine De Lavigne (in development)
2025 Le sable le plus fin du monde, associated documentary-fiction film for the Stella project (in progress)
2021 Thermal, self-produced short film
2019 Early Bird, self-produced short film
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES (SELECTED)
Réponses Photo, September 2026
Process Magazine, November 2025
L’Œil de la Photographie, October 2025
9 Lives Agenda, October 2025
9 Lives, portfolio, 2023
Figaro Madame, photography section, November 2023
Planches Contact Catalogue, Filigranes Éditions
Alumni Profile, Penninghen
Fisheye Magazine
Portfolio, Fisheye Magazine
Packshot Mag, article on the Club des Directeurs Artistiques award
Artist Profile by Okan Studio
Dim Dam Dom Magazine
La Voix du Nord, Le Réveil de Berck, Les Échos du Touquet
Polka Magazine, issues 21, 23 and 58
Le Monde de la Photo
Arty Magazine
Le Monde
Beaux Arts Magazine
Courrier International, Japan edition
La Repubblica
Faux Q, issue 9
Press kit by 2e Bureau for the Salon de la Photo
ZEITmagazin
TV5 Québec-Canada
L’Œil de la Photographie, Prix Picto coverage
TV & RADIO
2026 France 3 Régions, Nord–Pas-de-Calais
2026 Interview with Peter Miller, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, Germany
2022 Resident Artist Profile, Planches Contact Festival
2021 France 3 Regional News, Nord–Pas-de-Calais — [link]
2011 Canal+, Édition spéciale, featuring Daphné Bürki, 10 February
2011 Radio 107.7, interview, September
2013 France Info, L’Hyper Revue de presse, presented by Jean-Christophe Martin, 10 April
PRESS
Paris Match, En Magnum, Figaro Madame, Harper’s Bazaar Germany,
Le Monde, Grazia, L’Optimum, Stylist, Glamour, Financial Times, Marie Claire, Duel Magazine, Schön! Magazine, Blanc Magazine, DScene Magazine, Sport & Style, Vogue Italia, Éditions Eyrolles, Éditions Hachette, Éditions Anne Carrière
SELECTED CLIENTS
Moismont, Alexandre Gauthier, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Le Bon Marché, Le Monde, Pernod Ricard, Perrier, LVMH, Lancôme, Eres, Aéroports de Paris
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026 Finalist, Les Filles de la Photo Mentorship Programme
2026 Studio Installation Grant (AIA), Hauts-de-France
2024–2025 Regional Grant for Artistic and Cultural Outreach Projects (PRAC 4.0), Hauts-de-France
2024 Preselected for the Herezcorpo Award, France
2024 Selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize, York, UK
2023 Studio Installation Grant (AIA), Hauts-de-France
2022 Best Original Music Award for Thermal, Canadian International Fashion Film Festival (CANIFF), Toronto, CA
2022 Exceptional Grant from the French National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP) for Thermal
2022 Nomination for New Talent in Fashion Film Sound Production for Thermal, Club des directeurs artistiques,FR
2021 Best Film Award for Early Bird, Berlin Indie Film Festival, Germany
2021 Semi-finalist for Early Bird, Dumbo Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA
2021 Special COVID-19 Grant, French National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP)
2020 Finalist for Early Bird, Fashion Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 Semi-finalist for Early Bird, Venice Shorts, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Winner of the Boule Rouge Award for New Talent in Fashion Film Production for Early Bird, Club des Directeurs Artistiques, Paris
2019 Best of PhotoVogue for Inner Life
2019 Best of PhotoVogue for Early Bird
2017 Best of PhotoVogue for What a Lady Must Do
2012 First Runner-up, Prix Picto de la Mode, Paris
2011 Audience Award, SFR Young Talents Award, awarded by Françoise Huguier, Galerie Polka, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Das Kino des Lebens, Kunsthaus, Essen, Germany
2026 Stella, Best of Nuit de l’Année, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2026 Stella, Nuit de l’Année, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2024–2025 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Geneva, Switzerland
2024 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Chile
2024 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Tanzania
2024 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Amman, Jordan
2024 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2024 Léon a rasé César à Noël, Future Now Symposium, York Art Gallery, UK
2023 Stella, Dialogues on Humanity, Photo Elysée, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
2022 Léon a rasé César à Noël, Planches Contact Festival, Photo4food Foundation, Deauville, France
2022 Léon a rasé César à Noël, Partage, Photo4food Foundation, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France
2014–2023 Elegant Shadows, series exhibited in the corridors of the Hilton Paris Opera, France
2013 La Fileuse d’Or, Images d’Elles Festival, Toulouse, France
2013 7 juillet 1956, Prix Picto, Paris, France
2010 Gobelins School Exhibition, Atelier Mécanique, Arles, France
2005 Penninghen School Exhibition, the Louvre, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Danser sous la pluie, Maison des Photographes, Paris, France
2025 Preview, Galerie 52, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, Germany
2025 Danser sous la pluie, Château Coquelle, Dunkirk, France
2024 Stella, Brainstories, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Stella, Atelier Visconti, Paris, France
2023 Léon a rasé César à Noël, Yport, France
2016 ©Où est Charlie?, by max&charlotte : Orléans, Chartres, Tours, Bourges and Châteauroux, France
2014 ©Où est Charlie?, by max&charlotte : Cape Town, South Africa, and Paris, France
2013 ©Où est Charlie?, by max&charlotte : Shanghai, China; Le Pecq, Orléans, Chartres and Tours, France
2012 ©Où est Charlie?, by max&charlotte : Amsterdam, Netherlands; Paris and Beauvais, France; Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 — ©Où est Charlie?, by max&charlotte — Six-month exhibition at Bercy Village, Paris, France
2010 — La Fileuse d’Or, Des Petits Hauts, Rue Beaurepaire, Paris, France
SCREENINGS
2026 Stella, 200LUX EXPO, MAC — Maison des Arts, Créteil, France
2026 Stella, Best of screening at Croisière, Arles, France
2026 Stella, Nuit de la Photographie, Centrum Fotografii and Muzeum Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland
2026 Stella, Nuit de la Photographie, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2024 Thermal, Cine-Collage, OFF event, Festival du Film Court, Brest, France
2023 Sable le plus fin du monde, presented alongside the Stella exhibition at Atelier Visconti, Paris, France
2023 Stella, presented by Oeil Deep at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles, France
2022 Thermal, Film + Author programme, Cinéma Le Cinos, Berck, France
2019 Early Bird, premiere screening, Cinémonde Festival, Berck, France
