Juliette Pavy

Photographer, Paris France

Collectif Hors Format

Based in Paris / Brittany / Greenland

Drone pilot and underwater photography 🐠

Biography

Juliette Pavy is a documentary photographer and a graduate in biology engineering. She graduated from the photojournalism program at EMI-CFD in Paris, under the guidance of Julien Daniel and Guillaume Herbaut.

She regularly works with leading international media, including The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Libération... Her work combines a documentary approach with a focus on environmental and societal issues, primarily in the Arctic.

In 2020, she co-founded the Hors Format Collective. In 2022, she was awarded the Grande Commande Nationale by the BnF and the French Ministry of Culture. The following year, she received the Union of Professional Photographers (UPP) Award and the Françoise Demulder grant from Visa pour l’Image for her reportage on the forced sterilization of women in Greenland.

In 2024, she won the title of Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA). She received the Historic Photobook Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles for her first photobook, Spirals, which explores the forced sterilization of women in Greenland in 2026.

Her work has been exhibited and screened at major festivals, including Visa pour l’Image, Escales Photos, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and Les Femmes s’exposent.

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