Conceptual nominee

This series explores how iconic landmarks are perceived, remembered, and reconstructed in the mind. Inspired by Cubist principles of multiple viewpoints, I use layered photography to fragment architectural monuments and reassemble them within a single frame.

Each work is composed of numerous photographs captured from different angles, distances, and moments. These fragments are digitally interwoven to create simultaneous perspectives that challenge traditional photographic representation. Instead of presenting a monument as a fixed, singular image, the work reflects how perception is unstable, layered, and influenced by memory.

The resulting compositions introduce visual tension through shifting scales, intersecting lines, and disrupted geometry. Depth is constructed rather than captured, transforming familiar structures into dynamic spatial experiences.

By breaking and reconstructing these architectural icons, the series questions how we document cultural symbols and how personal memory reshapes what we believe to be stable and permanent. The work moves beyond documentation, proposing photography as an act of reconstruction rather than preservation.

Charlotte Fonne is a French American photographic artist based in Miami. Her practice centers on a distinctive multilayer photographic technique that reconstructs places, monuments, and human presence through fragmentation and visual layering. Drawing from her background in film editing, she approaches photography as a process of deconstruction and recomposition, transforming captured moments into constructed visual narratives.

She studied communication and media at 3IS School in Paris, specializing in film editing, where her curriculum included art history and image analysis. Before dedicating herself fully to her artistic career, she worked as a senior film editor in Paris and later as a documentary editor in Miami. In 2021, she founded Nouvelle Vague Productions.

Her work has been exhibited at Aqua Art Miami, LoosenArt in Rome, Praxis Photo Arts Center in Minneapolis, Women in Art online exhibition, and Spectrum Art Miami, where she received the Best New Exhibitor Award and the Spotlight Award. In 2025, her photography was curated into the LUMAS Gallery collection.