Artist in Residence 2016/2017 - Clément Verger

Clément Verger b. 1988, is a French photographer from the south east of France.
After studying visual arts and communication at the National Superior School of Arts, Olivier de Serres in Paris, Clément was admitted for the Leonardo da Vinci European grant. He then moved to London in 2008 where he worked with photographers' collective Luna, Lunatic magazine and as a freelance photographer.
He graduated with honours from a Master in Photographic Studies at the university of Westminster in 2011. He now lives and works in Paris. In 2013 he was selected for the New York Times portfolio reviews and accepted for a 6 months residency with the gallery RX in Paris. His work as been exhibited at the P3 gallery and the west gallery in London, as well as the gallery RX, the gallery Tamart and the réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris. He participated in 2012 at the Santorini Biennale of arts in Grece. His latest projects have been shown at the gallery RX, the gallery Rivière Faiveley and the Musée de minéralogie des mines Paristech in Paris.

Artists in Residence 2016/2017 - Constantin Schlachter

Constantin Schlachter b. 1992, France, is an artist based in Paris who works mainly with photography. Nature, invisible and matter are dominant entities in Schlachter's work. Using them, he creates sensorial fictions while examining reminiscence, mental landscapes and a spiritual return to Nature. In his approach all notions of realism are voided, and are replaced with abnormal colours, subjects and textures. He works in an instinctive way, constituting a continuous stream of pictures, in which projects punctuate that flow by crystallizing his evolving feelings.

He obtained a Photography Diploma at Gobelins, l'école de l'image in Paris in 2014. In 2016 he exhibited in the collective exhibition “Planet B-100 ideas for a new world” at the NRW-Forum in Dusseldörf. He was selected through the Foam Talent Call 2015 to have his portfolio published in Foam Magazine #42: Talent (2015) and was part of the Foam Talent exhibition traveling from Paris (Atelier Neerlandais) to Brussels (De Markten) and London (Beaconsfield Gallery). His dummy, Deux-fois-né was shortlisted at the Unseen Dummy Award (2015), le Photobook Fest (2015), Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award (2015) and at the Breadfield Dummy Award 2016. He was also shortlisted for the Hariban Award 2015

Artist in Residence 2016/2017 - Sissel Thastum

Sissel Thastum b. 1987, DK, is a graduate of Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art and Documentary Photography in Copenhagen and holds a BFA in in Documentary Photography from University of Wales, Newport.
She continuously work on her own photographic projects, and have been exhibiting internationally since 2011. In 2013 she received the Reginald Salisbury Travel Award toward the making of the work I am here when you are here. In 2012/13 she received Marie Langhoff's Artist grant, Danish Photographic Society grant as well as Anna & Jens Grum’s grant towards her artistic studies.
Sissel is the director and co-founder of the Independent AIR.

Artist in Residence 2016/2017 - Michele Palazzi

Michele Palazzi b. 1984, Italy, is a documentary photographer based in Rome.
His workwitnesses the disappearance of human traditions, as we know it. 

In 2007 he gained the master degree in Photography at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia. In 2013 he started working on Black Gold Hotel, a long-term project about the modernization impact in Mongolia, recipient of the First Prize of Environmental Photographer of the Year Award and in 2015 with the First Prize in the Daily Life category – Stories of the World Press Photo