To Brave The Thorns, Only To Loose Yourself Further

Charlotte Audoynaud

2024 — France

About this series

My love, tell me about the spring— the cry of life taking form, the roots reaching forward, the scent of earth, our bodies lost beneath the murky water, the walls we rebuild, the flowers that withe, the trees that bend, the fruits that rot, our hearts on the threshold, life rushing forward and tumbling into the hollows, the rust-colored ground overflowing, our hands frozen by frost, the grass cracking, spring bursting forth, and yellow overwhelming everything.

Photographer: Charlotte Audoynaud
Nationality: French
Based in: Paris, France
Website: www.charlotteaudoynaud.com
Instagram: @charlotteaudoynaud

A graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2016), Charlotte Audoynaud develops an artistic practice in which photography and writing intertwine.
Situated between autobiography and fiction, her work adopts a poetic and tender tone to explore the notion of intimate territory—the connections, gaps, and disappearances within. Attuned to the impermanence of bodies and their relationship with the environment, she stages her family within an all-encompassing natural world. Her compositions, conceived as micro-territories shaped by weathered space and time, blur the boundaries of reality. Through photographic “sentences,” she traces the contours of a dreamlike, deconstructed family narrative, where fragments of the everyday meet the extraordinary. It is a natural, nostalgic tale in which childhood unfolds and generations merge.