French photographer, born in 1999
Lives in Paris
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Project supported: MP#04 – Le Creux du nid

Ophélie Loubat is a documentary photographer born in 1999. Her practice is rooted in a desire to shed light on social and societal issues through intimate narratives.
Her subjects mainly concern family relationships, everyday life and exile. She regularly publishes in the press and carries out commissions for NGOs and institutions. In 2023, she was awarded the Prix Isem Jeune Photographe at the ImageSingulières festival.

“Born of a questioning stemming from my family experience, this documentary work looks at the daily lives of people raising their children alone, and the difficulties, both intimate and structural, they face.
It consists of four stories, each embodied by a family representing a stage in the parental life cycle. For over a year, they shared their intimacy with me during regular visits to their homes in Perpignan, Crest, Brest and Drancy.
These stories are about what these parents may be going through and experiencing, as well as the porosity between individuality and the parental role, exacerbated in situations of solo parenthood.
In trying to tell the stories of other families, I found myself confronted with my own. And in the end, by returning to their homes, I felt like I was coming home.