Marguerite Bornhauser is a visual artist photographer born in 1989 living and working in Paris. After studying literature and journalism, she joined the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, where she graduated in 2015. Her first personal institutional exhibition was held at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 2019.

Her work has been the subject of various exhibitions in museums, galleries and festivals around the world: in France (Paris, Arles, Toulouse, Deauville, etc.) but also in London, Brussels, Istanbul, Lisbon, Switzerland, Kyoto, Amsterdam, Madrid, Bahrain. It is also exhibited in public spaces in 27 Paris metro stations in 2020 and on billboards in the United States with the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2015. In 2020, she won the Photo London Emerging Photographer of the Year award. In 2021, the Grand Palais gave her carte blanche to cast her eye over the renovation site during the 4 years of the work that will result in a publication and an exhibition. In 2022, she was selected by Paris Photo's guest of honor, Rossy de Palma, as well as by Thomas Girst for BMW.

Marguerite Bornhauser most often accompanies her photographic research with editorial work. Her first book was published in 2017. Her second book 8 was published by Poursuite the following year. In 2019, she published her third book Red Harvest also by Poursuite. She published her fourth book by Editions La Martinière in 2021 and is preparing to publish her fifth book When Black is burned in 2023 with Simple Editions.

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