Isabelle Schmitt

A photographic language
instantly recognisable.

For more than twenty-five years, Isabelle Schmitt has composed with light, form and movement. Graphic framing, plays of reflection, colour and motion blur crafted in camera: an author’s language that turns the city into painterly matter.

From the 2000s, she developed an instantly recognisable photographic language: explorations of blur, light, the vibration of movement and the poetic transformation of the city. A language that travels and inspires, in France and abroad, and whose strength remains intact twenty-five years on.

In 2013, Réponses Photo featured this signature on its cover and in a portfolio, in an issue that also included Brassaï.

That same year, Isabelle began sharing her night photography practice in several issues of Savoir tout faire en photographie.
Issue 10 devotes four pages to this photographic language.

These publications extend a personal body of work begun long before it appeared in the press and in her masterclasses.

Through her masterclasses — notably in collaboration with Aguila Voyages — her lectures and talks, Isabelle shares her sensitive, graphic and immersive approach to the image with photographers from all over France and abroad.

For ten years, she also exhibited in the Photography section of the Salon d’Automne, bringing her work to a wide audience. This Paris event draws more than 30,000 visitors; her international exhibitions carry the dialogue beyond borders.

In 2016, she founded the Digital Art & Video Section at the Salon d’Automne, which she chaired for ten years. International outreach, scenography and dialogue between photography, video, artificial intelligence and immersive installations: her art direction brings the arts together and supports new visual languages.

A member of ADAGP since 2002, of the Salon d’Automne since 2014 and of the Fondation Taylor since 2017, and winner of the Toile d’Or of the Year 2014 at Art Capital, Isabelle Schmitt now pursues her research into digital art, motion design and AI visual systems.

Her career links international diplomatic and artistic scenes: UNESCO, Paris City Hall, the Grand Palais, the National Art Center, Tokyo, since 2014, and exhibitions in Beijing, Tianjin and Xi’an. Author photography remains the common thread of this path.

Unanimously selected by the Salon d’Automne jury in 2013, Isabelle Schmitt became a member in 2014. There, her art direction opens a dialogue between digital painting, photography, drawing and electronic music: a meeting of the arts, of artists and of new creative tools.