Bio

Colette Pourroy lives and works in Paris and in Provence.

After attending ENSAD in Villa Arson in Nice, she specialized and drawing and 

photography. She worked for 30 years with Parisian editors a freelance artist,

before devoting herself to photography in 2008

Her photos are on 6x6 film unretouched, and print on matt baryta paper.

Exhibitions selections. (extract)

.2025. Galerie Ira Leonis (Arles) September/October Narrations mêlées

•2024• Galerie Le Pangolin (Marseille) September (De Moi à Soi) Self-Portrait

•2023• Galerie Mind’s Eye (Paris) Oct/Dec. (Soul States series)

•2023• Galerie La Chambre Claire (Douarnenez) - solo (Grand-mother series)

•2022• Hôtel du Forum (Arles) Rencontres photo - solo (Grand-mother series)

•2020• Espace MLB (Arles) Rencontres photo, July/August (Sister series)

•2019• Galerie Mind’s Eye (Paris) Oct/Nov. solo (Mother series)

•2019• Galerie Huit (Arles) Rencontres photo, July/August (Mother series)

•2019• Galerie L’Imagerie (Lannion) June/July (Father series)

•2017• Galerie Mind’s Eye (Paris) Dec/January - (Sister series)

•2017• Fotofever by Galerie Mind’s Eye (Paris)  - solo (Sister series)

•2015• Galerie Mind’s Eye (Paris) solo (Family saga extract)

•2014• Mois de la Photo à Paris - MEP* select - Little Big galerie - solo (Couple)

•2013• Galerie du Centre Iris (Paris) - solo (Father series)

•2011• VisAVis International - selection on the site by Nathalie Luyer

•2003-2023. Public collection – Bibliothèque nationale de France, MEP*

•2002-2023• Private collections in France and abroad (Belgium, 

 Deutschland, England, Japan, Switzerland, USA.)

* Maison européenne de la photographie