citylikeyou — Nancy / Sophie Fontaine

I’m a french freelance photographer and illustrator, based in Nancy (north-eastern France). After studies of Applied Arts and a few experiences as a colorist and drawer, I devote myself to analog photography. I explore different themes through this media, like the relation between humans and nature, nostalgia, expression of the self, but also the parallel between desolated places and solitude of beings.

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Current city: Nancy

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Nancy / Area

Stanislas is a large pedestrianized square, dreamt up by Stanislaw Leszczynski in the 17th century, as a way to link the medieval old town of Nancy and the new town. It is paved with light ochre stones, and is surrounded by an architecturally harmonious ensemble of buildings, most notably The City Hall, the Opéra-Theâtre but also the Fine Arts Museum.

Nancy / Place

The Jardin Dominique Alexandre Godron is a historic botanical garden located at 3 rue Sainte-Catherine, Nancy. This is a peaceful place, which displays amazing horticultural collections in its long, narrow beds, as a maze of plants and trees of all kinds...

Nancy / Area

Marshals street (rue des Maréchaux) is a pedestrian street located in the Old city of Nancy. It owes its fame to the specificity of having a high density of restaurants. This is why the locals gave it the nickname gourmet street, rue gourmande in french.

Nancy / Port

The marina Nancy-Saint-Georges is located in the heart of the city, 5 minutes walk from the Stanislas site. On one side are the docks St. George and St. Catherine, embellished with green spaces, and on the other side, the Water Gardens. It is a place of pleasant walk, where you can admire boats and barges from all backgrounds.

Nancy / Shop

La Boite à Photos is located in the heart of the old town, on a charming cobbled street. This is obviously a must for me, because there are all kinds of 35mm and instant films available for sale, but also second-hand Polaroid cameras and lomographic cameras. The store owners are themselves collectors and invested in the artistic Nancy's life, having organized a great photos contest last spring.

Nancy / Museum

The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the "École de Nancy", an artistic movement founded in 1901. The museum, opened in 1964, it has a wonderful garden, an aquarium pavilion, and the main building contains works by all the major "Art Nouveau" artists from Nancy. Exposed collections are made of rooms decorated in "Art Nouveau" style, filled with atypical objects of art designed by leading representatives of this french artistic movement.

Budapest / Photographer

Marietta Varga was born in Hungary. She completed her studies, BA in Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design between 2013-2016. Currently living and working in Budapest.

London / Designer

Product Designer at Deliveroo. Lived in NYC, San Francisco and now in London. Driven by design, technology and adventure.

Paris / Photographer

Neil Atherton is a Paris-based photographer and curator from the UK. He has called Paris home for over a decade and still speaks French with an English accent. His personal photography is based almost uniquely on the use of out-of-date film and explores the physical effects of time on memory. He has a large camera collection of ‘70s rangefinders and compacts from the ‘80s and organizes the biannual photography festival Mois de a Photo-OFF.

Los Angeles / Film Director

Micaela McLucas is a filmmaker and artist based between Los Angeles, Paris and London. She studied at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and completed her MFA in Contemporary Photography at Central Saint Martins in London. Raised between Argentina and LA, always on an airplane, always out of context. Three passports, four languages, learned every life lesson by getting kicked in the teeth, which is why her work hits the way it does. Her influences range from trash TV to French philosophy and cinema has always been the core obsession. Her work moves between fashion, theory and lived experience in ways that feel both precise and unruly. The world she builds is psychedelic, intimate and unapologetically feminine. She mines her own life for material and uses it to collapse fantasy and confession. Everything is neon soaked, surreal and intrusive, not to escape reality but to pierce it. She's currently writing and developing her first feature film while continuing her studio practice.

Paris / Photographer

Originally from the south of France, is a graduate of the Beaux Arts of Marseille and the Gobelins Photography School of Paris. She currently expresses herself through still life photography. Candice works from her own studio in Paris. Represented by Margot de Roquefeuil http://www.margotderoquefeuil.com/artists/candice-milon/

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