‘Beautiful work … a great eye and narrative sense, and a unique perspective.’ James Cameron
Ebrard’s images are drenched with natural light, intimacy and beauty. Filled with movement and energy, each still contains a story, a personal tale. She invite the viewer to take a glimpse into worlds that are out-of-bounds. In a culture that is obsessed with authenticity, her photographs are real and my shots are cinematic.
Sophie Ebrard is a photographer and director based in Amsterdam.
At the National Portrait Gallery her work was exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize selection 2015. Her collection ‘Dunk Elite’ won the Association of Photographers award in 2016. ‘It’s Just Love’, perhaps her signature collection, exhibited in Amsterdam and Kyoto and made headlines internationally in outlets such as Vanity Fair, Time, Marie Clair, the Guardian, the Huffington Post & Dazed.
Her work is widely eclectic yet marked by a distinctive aesthetic and approach. To every subject – from the porn actors of ‘It’s Just Love’ to the Argentine family of horse-farmers in ‘Finca La Prospera’ – Sophie brings the same eye for compositions at once artful and spontaneous, the same effortless compassion, humor and elegance, and a chameleon ability to form the sort of bonds and intimacy that bring portrait photography to life.
Sophie’s commercial clients include Rolex, Heineken, HSBC, Samsung, Stella Artois, Timberland, Volkswagen & Google. Among her subjects have been Roger Federer, James Cameron & Michael Bublé. As a director she has undertaken high-profile work for Volkswagen and top French chocolate brand Poulain.