Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon HonFRPS (born Marielle Warin; 1941) is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work.

Biography Marielle Warin was born in Vernon, France in 1941. She successfully captured the fashionable atmosphere of London after the "swinging sixties", working closely with Barbara Hulanicki, who had launched the popular clothes store Biba.

In 1972, she shot the Pirelli calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with Cacharel, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Vogue. Since 1985, Moon has moved into gallery work and even started developing her own films including Circuss (2002) and Le Fil Rouge (2006). She later directed the music video for Khaled's pop hit Aïcha. 1993: Staley-Wise Gallery, New York 2011: Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image Charles Nègre, Nice 2011: 12345, Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden 2012: The Black Hood, Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow House of Photography 2013: Alchimies: Sarah Moon, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 2014: The Red Thread, Fotografiska Stockholm 2015: Sarah Moon − Now and Then, Haus der photographie Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2016: Sarah Moon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan 2020: Sarah Moon − PastPresent, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris 2021: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Stockholm, New York 2022: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia

Awards 1985: International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Applied Photography 1995: Grand Prix national de la photographie, France 2008: Prix Nadar for (1 2 3 4 5, Delpire), Paris 2018: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath 2022: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum