Exchange Edit: Nadia Sablin by Céline Clanet

Exchange edit is a series in which two photographers select images from the various bodies of work of the other photographer and then sequence them to form a new edit.

Today we present the work of Nadia Sablin edited and sequenced by Céline Clanet. Yesterday we presented Clanet's work edited and sequenced by Sablin.

Nadia Sablin was born in the Soviet Union and spent her adolescence in the American Midwest. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and St. Petersburg, Russia. Her photographs have been shown at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography and Jen Bekman Gallery among others.

Céline Clanet (1977) was born and raised in the French Alps. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles (France), she has been working since 2005 on the European Arctic continental territory - known as "Lapland" - and the Sámi people. Her Máze photographic series was awarded with several prizes in Europe and USA, including the Critical Mass Book Award (USA).

Published and exhibited in Europe and abroad, her photographic work is part of the Société Française de Photographie (France), the Archives Départementales de Savoie (France) and the Portland Art Museum (USA) collections, as well as several private collections. Céline Clanet has published 3 books: Des Barrages et de Hommes en Savoie (Actes Sud, France, 2011), Máze (Photolucida, USA, 2010) and Un Mince Vernis de Réalité (Filigranes, France, 2005). She works and lives in Paris.

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Exchange Edit: Céline Clanet by Nadia Sablin

Exchange edit is a series in which two photographers select images from the various bodies of work of the other photographer and then sequence them to form a new edit.

Today we present the work of Céline Clanet as edited and sequenced by Nadia Sablin. Tomorrow we will present Sablin's work edited and sequenced by Clanet.

Céline Clanet (1977) was born and raised in the French Alps. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles (France), she has been working since 2005 on the European Arctic continental territory - known as "Lapland" - and the Sámi people. Her Máze photographic series was awarded with several prizes in Europe and USA, including the Critical Mass Book Award (USA).

Published and exhibited in Europe and abroad, her photographic work is part of the Société Française de Photographie (France), the Archives Départementales de Savoie (France) and the Portland Art Museum (USA) collections, as well as several private collections. Céline Clanet has published 3 books: Des Barrages et de Hommes en Savoie (Actes Sud, France, 2011), Máze (Photolucida, USA, 2010) and Un Mince Vernis de Réalité (Filigranes, France, 2005). She works and lives in Paris.

Nadia Sablin was born in the Soviet Union and spent her adolescence in the American Midwest. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and St. Petersburg, Russia. Her photographs have been shown at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography and Jen Bekman Gallery among others.
 

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121: Céline Clanet

Céline Clanet
Morning sun over tundra, Máze, 2009

Series Statement
Since 2005, I have been traveling regularly to Máze, a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland. There, I met quiet people, sometimes melancholic, captivating, who are very proud of their village and territory. They often have binoculars at hand, even in their homes, to gaze at these beautiful landscapes.

I have photographed Sámi people, houses, land and reindeer that were almost not here today. They barely escaped being flooded by the waters of a hydroelectric dam project that the Norwegian government planned in the early 1970’s. Thanks to the Sámi people's protests and resistance it was fortunately aborted.

But I have also photographed a reality that will undoubtedly transform in the coming century, due to global warming and cultural integration.

To me, Máze is an ambivalent symbol of resistance and helplessness.

Pride as well as suspicion, solitude and great beauty prevail there. In the most beautiful tundra of the Arctic region, I tasted Ante's and Ole Ailo's favorite season, when days get longer and temperatures become milder. The perfect moment, when time doesn't exist anymore and night is gone, when Sámi people immerse themselves in their favorite activities: fishing through ice holes in Lake Suolojávri and riding the snøskuter in the tundra. And all these hours spent with friends, family, outside on a reindeer skin, in a hytte or under a lávvu, talking, jolking, or lying down doing nothing, saying nothing. Just being.