Charlotte Abramow BE, b. 1993
Born in 1993 in Brussels (Belgium), Charlotte Abramow has been interested in images from a very young age. At 13, she photographed her friends and young girls who inspired her, each time creating a small story. At 16, during an internship at the Rencontres d’Arles (France), she met Paolo Roversi (1947), an Italian fashion and portrait photographer. The following year, he wrote an article about her images entitled “La fragilité et l’âme d’une guerrière” published in Polka Magazine in 2011.
In 2013, Charlotte Abramow moved to Paris to study at Gobelins, l’École de l’Image. Her work won the Picto Prize for Young Fashion Photography in 2014 and mainly explores the relationship with the body, women, and life stages, staging elements in an absurd way within a surreal world. At 24, the artist took charge of the visual direction of the project BROL by Belgian singer Angèle, for which she created all the photographs. During this artistic collaboration, she made her first steps as a director with “La Loi de Murphy”
and “Je Veux Tes Yeux”. In 2018, she also directed the music video “Les Passantes” by Georges Brassens, released on March 8 for International Women’s Rights Day. The same day, it was censored for under-18s on the YouTube platform for “offensive content.”
In autumn 2018, her first book was published: MAURICE, Tristesse et rigolade about her father’s illness (Éditions Fisheye), funded by 777 contributors on Kickstarter in 2016. While the project was underway, it received a special mention at the 2017 Photo Folio Review Awards of the Rencontres d’Arles. At the same time, the photographer exhibited her series “They love Trampoline” at Paris Photo with Galerie Fisheye in 2018.
In 2019, the book MAURICE, Tristesse et rigolade was a finalist for the Nadar Prize. The same year, Charlotte Abramow directed the music video “Balance ton Quoi” by Angèle featuring Pierre Niney. Early 2020, she conceived and directed “Le Petit Manuel
Sex Education” for Netflix. This 64-page editorial object on sexual education, made of photos and texts, was distributed free of charge with 75,000 copies in France. In 2021, Charlotte Abramow presented her first solo exhibitions: “Première Page” at Fisheye Gallery (Arles, France) and “Started From The Body” at Richard Taittinger Gallery (New York, USA). In 2022, she held her first major retrospective exhibition “Volle Petrol” at the Hangar (Brussels, Belgium) and an exhibition “Piquées” about bees and beekeepers at Maison Guerlain (Paris, France).
Among her many projects: a short film for Arte (an episode of the series H24 on violence against women), the poster for the Critics’ Week at Cannes (2022), a music video for singer Suzane (Clit is Good), the photography for Damso’s latest album (BEYAH), as well as numerous portraits of personalities for the press. In 2025, she held several exhibitions: “Rêves de Jeux” on the grilles of the Tour- Saint-Jacques (Paris, France), “La tête haute” a project on psychiatry with the Fédération Hospitalière de France presented at the Fisheye Gallery (Paris, France), as well as “Volle Petrol Twee” at Fort Napoléon (Ostend, Belgium).