Photo Saint Germain 2018

Spotted at the 2016 Montrouge Salon, finalists of the 2016 HSBC Photography Prize, nominated the same year for the 2016 Emerige Revelations Scholarship, Johanna Benaïnous (1991) and Elsa Parra (1990) form a duo of visual artists, photographers and directors.
They met at the School of Visual Art in New York and received congratulations from the jury of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2015. They were the guest artists at the Festival Circulation (s) 2017 and at the 2017 Saint-Germain Photo Festival. They won the 2nd Prix Picto de la Mode 2017, which allowed them to enter the collections of the Palais Galliera (Fashion Museum of the City of Paris). Galerie La Forest Divonne presented them for the first time in its Brussels space for the exhibition Kaleidoscope. In 2018, the WVFF (Municipal Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Paris) acquires all 88 portraits of the series A Couple of Them, 36 of them are exhibited on the booth of the WVF at the FIAC 2018.