Margot Wallard
Born in 1978 in Paris, France.
In the late 1990s, she began documenting free party culture while organizing exhibitions in alternative spaces in Paris. In 1999, she co-founded Atelier Reflexe, a space dedicated to photography as an artistic and experimental practice. In 2001, she organized a city-wide slide projection during the Rencontres d’Arles.
She later became the assistant of photographer Véronique Bourgoin.
In 2004, she participated in the project EX-IN, exploring the relationship between public and private space, presented as both a book and an exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Barcelona. That same year, a retrospective of her free party photographs was shown at Heart Galerie in Paris. She also began No Name No City, a project developed through travels in Ukraine, Russia and China, first exhibited at MuseumsQuartier Vienna during the Month of Photography.
In 2007, she contributed to the European project EU Women, initiated by Véronique Bourgoin, which was later presented through exhibitions, a CD-ROM and a book across Europe and the United States.
In 2008, she started My Brother Guillaume and Sonia, an intimate project focusing on her brother and his partner, both struggling with alcoholism. The work was published by Journal in 2013.
In 2010, she moved to Sweden and co-founded the photography school Atelier Smedsby with photographer JH Engström. Together they published three books: Foreign Affair (2011), 7 Days Athens (2012), and Karaoke Sunne (2014), with Super Labo.
In 2012, she began Natten, a project exploring her relationship to the Swedish landscape. The series was exhibited at Landskrona Foto Festival in 2014 and shortlisted for several awards including the Source-Cord Prize, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Kassel Dummy Award. The book Natten was published by Max Ström in 2017 and selected among the best photobooks of the year by Svenska Dagbladet.
Since 2018, she has been working on two long-term projects in Oran, Algeria, and Normandy, France, combining personal archives and contemporary images to explore family memory and transmission.
