ELLA BATS

TOUCH by ELLA BATS, Inkjet Printing on Fine Art Paper Mounted on Aluminum

2023

Ella Bats is a French photographer artist based in Paris. She graduated in art and graphic design from ENSAAMA and later attended the Gobelins School of Image for photography until 2017. What is evident in her work is the proximity between painting and material that she translates through art, fashion, and portraiture. Ella Bats explores the medium of digital photography, utilizing the capabilities of retouching through layering, multiplication, and fusion of different layers. She questions the connections between an individual’s inner world and how it can be represented. She establishes an intimate dialogue with her subjects, allowing their humanity to appear uniquely. Photography has always been, for her, both a means of representing a world and an attempt to understand others. Her works have been exhibited at Samaritaine (2022/2023), MAP Festival (2022), Tranoï showroom at Palais Brongniart (2022), Villa Noailles Festival in Hyères (2021), Galerie Madé (2021), Tom Faulkner Designer showroom in London (2021), Paul Smith Albemarle Street space in London (2021), Fashion for Sidaction photo sale (2021), Rencontres photographiques du 10ème festival (2019), PH21 Gallery in Budapest (2017), Promenades photographiques de Vendôme with the Mark Grosset Prize (2016), Terroirs de France and Jeune Photographie exhibition in Berlin, Yokohama, and Moscow (2016), and was selected as a finalist for the Picto Fashion Photography Award (2021).