Born in Poland, Ella Kowalska settled in France after living in the United States. After completing a dual degree in art history and law, she obtained a master’s degree in heritage history at the Sorbonne in 2011 and a master’s degree in law at the Université Paris Sud. Since then, she has continued to work on interdisciplinarity and cross-breeding, convinced that improbable blends are the most fruitful. In collaboration with Jonathan Desoindre, she has participated in the creation of numerous short films, selected in international festivals and broadcast on television. Her first feature-length fiction film, Sun, produced by Rouge International and Les Produits Frais, was released in theatres in July 2019. Adding a new string to her bow, in 2022, she trained at the Gobelins school and set up as a photographer. Particularly sensitive to the colours, materials and sounds that give the world its texture, Ella is constantly looking for the right balance between realism and fantasy. Driven by the desire to reflect our times, she is thus in each of her projects in search of a form of “augmented reality” capable of telling our modernity. In January 2024, she founded a collective Street is a woman, which now brings together more than 200 female street photographers, spread across France.
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Born in Poland, Ella Kowalska settled in France after living in the United States. After completing a dual degree in art history and law, she obtained a master’s degree in heritage history at the Sorbonne in 2011 and a master’s degree in law at the Université Paris Sud. Since then, she has continued to work on interdisciplinarity and cross-breeding, convinced that improbable blends are the most fruitful. In collaboration with Jonathan Desoindre, she has participated in the creation of numerous short films, selected in international festivals and broadcast on television. Her first feature-length fiction film, Sun, produced by Rouge International and Les Produits Frais, was released in theatres in July 2019. Adding a new string to her bow, in 2022, she trained at the Gobelins school and set up as a photographer. Particularly sensitive to the colours, materials and sounds that give the world its texture, Ella is constantly looking for the right balance between realism and fantasy. Driven by the desire to reflect our times, she is thus in each of her projects in search of a form of “augmented reality” capable of telling our modernity. In January 2024, she founded a collective Street is a woman, which now brings together more than 200 female street photographers, spread across France.
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