Born in 1999, Paloma Laudet is a freelance photographer member of  Collectif Item and based in Paris. After studying photojournalism at EMI-CFD in Paris, she started by documenting the consequences of European anti-immigration policies. With this work, she won the Bourse du Talent in 2022, and her work was exhibited at the French National Library in Paris. For the past two years, she has been working mainly in East Africa, where she collaborates with both French and international media (Le Monde, Libération, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail) and also as a videographer (Arte, France TV). She is also developing personal documentary project in Rwanda, focused on the post-genocide society — a project supported by the CNAP. For her, photography is a way to bear witness to the social, environmental, and human issues shaping our society — so that indifference never takes hold.

EXHIBITIONS - DISTINCTIONS

2025

• Special mention from the jury  - The secret of the mermaids - Les Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France

• Screening - The secret of the mermaids - Les Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France

• Grant from the National Centre of Art of France (CNAP)

• Exhibition The secret of the mermaids - Les Femmes s’exposent festival, Houlgate, France

• Exhibition Ejo: Rwanda between yesterday and tomorrow - Item Galerie, Lyon

2024

• Eddie Adams Workshop - New-york, Usa

• Finalist of the Jean-Luc Lagardère Grant

• Screening at the Night of Photojournalism in Paris

• Exhibition of Harraga - Nostre Mar Festival in Perpignan, France

• Collective Exhibition of Apogée - Item Gallery in Lyon, France

• Collective Exhibition Ordonnance - residency at Edouard Heriot Hospital -  Tony Garnier Urban Museum, Lyon, France

• Residency at the Edouard Heriot Hospital with Collectif Item in Lyon, France

2023

• Finalist of the Mentor-Freelens Award

• Screening at the Night of Photojournalism in Paris and San Francisco

• Exhibition of No Man's Land at the Dali International Photography Exhibition in Wuhan, China

• Exhibition of Harraga - Mission Locale de Paris, France

• Collective Exhibition #WomenMatter - Dysturb, Paris, France

• Collective Exhibition Side to Side in Joburg at 193 in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, France

• Collective Exhibition Ukraine: War and Exile at Lyon 3rd City Hall, France

• Collective Exhibition Side to Side in Joburg, residency in South Africa with Collectif Item, at the Permanence Photographique - Lyon, France

2022

• Exhibition of No Man's Land at the National Library of France in Paris

• Winner of the Bourse du Talent with No Man's Land

• Residency in Johannesburg, South Africa with Collectif Item supported by the French Institute

• Winner of the Sept.Info Swiss Photojournalism Encouragement Prize with Harraga

• Exhibition of No Man's Land at the Institute of Geography in Paris

• Special Mention from the Jury at the Territories in Images Festival with No Man's Land

• Collective Exhibition Ukraine: War and Exile at the ESAD in Grenoble, France

• Exhibition and screening of No Man's Land at the Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France

• Exhibition of No Man's Land at the Urban Eye Festival - Corbeil-Essonnes, France

• Selected by Artpil in the 30 Under 30 Women Photographers

2021

• Winner of Young Photography Occitanie with No Man's Land

2020

• Coup de coeur Award from Le Journal du Dimanche at the Grand Prix Paris-Match Student Awards with Rêve Souterrain

• Canon Student Development Program