Waking dreams or fairytale fiction? Maia Flore’s photos show an unreal world that she invents and constructs around her.
The photographer uses herself as the only model for the shots, plays with her body and her hair, and creates strange links with the countryside and setting around her. Her world is a complete fabrication in form of touching and enchanting narrations, even surrealistic.
A French photographer born in 1988, Maia Flore lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Gobelins School, became a member of Agence Vu and began exhibiting her works in 2011 at the Circulations Festival and at the Rencontres d’Arles. In the summer 2012, she went for a residency in Finland and started working on installations. In the following years, she pursued this research at Kala Art Institute of California-Berkeley. Taking her own person as a model, Maia Flore invents situations where her hair and her body act with the landscape or the scenery and transfigure the reality. Luminous poems, that begin with sketches from memories and impressions, her photographs are filled with travel, dream and imagination. In 2015, Maia Flore became the 20th winner of the HSBC Prize for Photography, along with Guillaume Martial.
In Sweden she began her first series "Sleep Elevations", a journey that indulges in  her childhood memories.
During the summer of 2012, while her first residence in Finland, Maia Flore explored new methods of representation and narration.

These researches then continued at the Arts Center of Berkeley, California, resulting in two series (Situations and Morning Sculptures) that continue to explore the feelings of confusion in which the photographer places her characters as her audience.
She had her first show in February 2011 at the festival Circulation (s) of the Young European Photography in Paris, and more recently, as part of a White Card from Atout France and the French Institute, Maia Flore depicted the French heritage through her dreamy world in the series "Imagine France – Le voyage fantastique" exposed in Bercy Village until September 2014.
Along with her own work, she also responds to assignments for the press and the private or public cultural sector.

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