Martine Fougeron

Martine Fougeron is a French-American photographer and filmmaker based in Paris and New York City. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively, and collected by numerous major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Fougeron relocated for work to New York in 1996. While pursuing a career as a creative director in the fragrance industry, she took up photography in 2002 in part to spend more time with her children. She embarked upon a multi-year project of photographing her sons and their friends in their formative years. The resultant series was displayed at the Gallery at Hermès in 2013 before its release in 2014 as the collection Teen Tribe. In 2016, a selection of the series was featured in the collection Family Photography Now, along with eight other photographers. The photographs have been widely exhibited and are the subject of the Nicolas et Adrien monograph published by Steidl in 2019.

In 2011, Fougeron began working on a series of images documenting life in the South Bronx. Titled The South Bronx Trades, the series was exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2014.

Fougeron's work is included in collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Fougeron is on the Faculty of the International Center of Photography and has been a visiting lecturer at The Camera Club of New York and the School of Visual Arts, as well as an artist-in-residence at the Chennai Photo Biennale and the Lycee Français de New York. She is the founder of The Photography Master Retreat, an annual summer workshop in the south of France. In 2016, she was a resident artist at Yaddo, an artist community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2009, she was included among Photo District Newss list of 30 photographers to watch.

Fougeron is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, FT Magazine WSJ and New York Magazine.

Work Nicolas et Adrien A World with Two Sons

Fougeron's primary fine art photography project since 2005 has been her series Nicolas et Adrien A World with Two Sons, which consists of two collections: "Teen Tribe" (2005–2010) and "The Twenties" (2010–2018). Critic Vince Aletti commented in a New Yorker article: Fougeron's pictures of Adrien or Nicolas sleeping or lounging about in Greenwich Village and the South of France have a lovely looseness and spontaneity, but they never feel like snapshots. Color energizes the work and adds to its sensual undertow. Cory Jacobs, curator of the Gallery at Hermès in New York City, noted on Artsy.net:The gaze is telling in these pictures. The boys are figuring out who they are and who they want to become while staring out at both their mother and the artist, the push and pull of separating from family while gaining strength from it. Growing up is not always easy, but Fougeron gracefully shows us the metamorphosis in all its complicated beauty. Images from this series have been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia as well as France, Korea, China, and Switzerland. They were highlighted at a New York Photo Festival by Ken Johnson of The New York Times, have received numerous awards and are in the permanent collections of several museums, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Summertime à Esparon (film)

Synopsis: A family story starting in the 50s in a deserted hamlet in France. The Director's relatives' photographs and 16mm films are presented along with her own photographic work and narration around the summertime theme.

Summertime à Esparon was awarded best short documentary at the AVOFF Festival, the Berlin Shorts Award, the Paris International Short Awards and the Brussels World Film Festival.

The South Bronx Trades Images from this series were featured in a solo exhibition The South Bronx Trades at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2016,

Solo exhibitions Martine Fougeron: SummerTime, Le Musée du Château d'Assas, Institut d’Art, Le Vigan, France (June 23 - September 17, 2023) Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (April 6 June 26, 2016) Tête-à-Tête, Julia Dean Gallery, Berenice Abbott Prize, Los Angeles (02-03-2007)

Selected group shows

Documentation and Expression, Daejeon International Photo Festival, Daejeon Artist House, Korea (November 13–24, 2024) Le corps social : Documenter l'individu dans la société : codes et paradoxe, Galerie Miranda, Paris, France (March 12- April 13, 2024) Her City, curated by MarkCraig and Valeri Larko, Leake Street Gallery, London, UK (March 20-April 30, 2023) Catalyst: Art and Social Justice at Gracie Mansion Conservancy, February 24, 2020 August 2021. Curated by Jessica Bell Brown. Objective/Subjective, NYPH 11, Brooklyn, NY, The Future of Contemporary Photography curated by Elisabeth Biondi (May 2011) Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, curated by Elisabeth Biondi (September–October 2011) Perchance to Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, (June–August 2013) Bronx X Bronx Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY (May–June 2014) This Side of Paradise, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY, curated by Manon Sloan of No Longer Empty (April–June 2012)

Publications Nicolas et Adrien A World with Two Sons. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl 2019. Family Photography Now, by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, Thomas & Hudson, 2016. . Trees in Focus, Objectif Arbres, Anne Fontaine Foundation, Assouline Publishing, 2013. Adolescence, Landscape Stories, Vulcano Publisher, Italy Legs through the Lens, Eyrolles Editions, November 2012

Collections Fougeron's work is held in the following public and private collections:

Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York