Martine Fougeron was born and reared in France and studied at LFNY, Wellesley College and then at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. She has been living in New York and working as a photographer for the last ten years, having turned to photography after a successful career as a Creative Director of Perfumery where she was the 'nose of the noses' with 20 world-class perfumers. Martine completed the one-year program at the International Center of Photography. Martine began her Tête-à-Tête project in 2005. In this series of intimate portraits, she reveals the face-to-face engagement of the mother-photographer with the private world of two brothers and their teen tribe. Curator and critic Charlotte Cotton has called the project “one of the best biographical stories that photography has crafted in the 2000s." Tête-à-Tête was presented in solo exhibitions at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia in 2010 and Peter Hay Halpert Gallery in New York in 2008 and and has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in the US and Europe (France, Italy and Spain).
The work is present in major pubic and private collections and Museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fougeron is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. |
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