Mahé ELIPE
Photojournalist
& Visual storyteller
CONTACT
Mahé ELIPE
Fr (+33) 6 77 55 31 65
Mex (+52) 33 3505 2180
WhatsApp: +33 6 7755 3165
Mail: mahe.elipe@gmail.com
Instagram: @_mahelipe_
Twitter: @_mahelipe_
ABOUT
Bio
Born in 1991, Mahé Elipe is a French photographer based in Mexico City since 2016, after several years working in the fashion industry in Paris. Her work blends photojournalism with documentary, bordering on fine art photography. Her focus is on the human condition, with particular attention to the role of women in society. She is a recipient of the Reuters Photojournalists Grants 2019 and also received the COVID-19 Emergency Fund from the National Geographic Society in 2020. She was a finalist in the YBIPA 2022 at Athens Photo World and won the Women Photograph Project 2022, as well as the Françoise Demulder Prize 2023 at the Visa pour l’Image Festival. In 2024, she won the Sony World Photography Awards in the Professional Environment category. The photographer collaborates with various media outlets such as Libération, Le Monde, Bloomberg, The Guardian, NRC, and Reuters. Her authorial work has been exhibited at various venues, including in 2022 in Łódź, Poland, at the Fotofestiwal, and in Barcelona, Spain, during the II BCN-DH Festival the same year. In 2024, the photographer exhibited in France at the Les Femmes s’exposent Festival, and her work will also be visible in March 2025 at the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan, Italy.
Prizes / Selections
2024
> VISA POUR L'IMAGE - Prix Françoise Demulder -2024// Winner
> SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2024 -PROFESIONAL ENVIRONMENT// Winner -
2023
> PRIX ISEM DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DOCUMENTAIRE 2023// Finalist
>VISURA’S GRANT for Visual journalists 2022 // Winner
2022
>WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH PROJECT GRANT 2022 // Winner
> YANNIS BEHRAKIS INTERNATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD 2022// Finalist
2021
>NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY FUNDS GRANT // COVID-19 Emergency funding
>DEUTSCHE WELLE GRANT // Periodismo de construcción -cambia la historia-
>PRIX LNP// Finalist “Photographic film -De l’absence germent les fleurs-”
>STENIN CONTEST // Finalist "Portrait. A Hero of Our Time"
> CUARTOSCURO CONTEST // Mexico, Winner Concurso periodístico y documental
2020
>WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH // 2020 Year in Pictures
>Shortlisted // “COVID-19: THE BIGGER PICTURE” of Thomson Reuters Foundation
>Shortlisted // FOTOFEVER PRIZE with Dahinden#3
>FOTODEMIC // Winner - Grant #001 by Meero Foundation
>Selection coup de coeur // INCADAQUÉS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL
>30 Under 30 Women photographer winners // ARTPIL
2019
>Grant winner // REUTERS PHOTOJOURNALIST GRANT 2019
>Finalist // PRIX MENTOR Session #6 Associted press RUP Freelens
> Coup de coeur Selection, Portfolio Review // ANI, Festival Visa pour l'image
2018
> Finalist, Concurso periodistica y documental // CUARTOSCURO CONTEST, Mexico
> Winner Lauréat, Contest photo Mag // PHOTO MAGAZINE, Paris, France
> Winner Lauréat, Contest photo Mag // PHOTO MAGAZINE, Paris, France
> Emerging photographer finalist // LUGANOPHOTODAYS CONTEST , Lugano, Switzerland
Exhibitions
2024
>"Tapachula ville de transit" Festival Les Femmes s'Exposent 2024, Houlgate, Normandie, France
> "Acompañatas" Biennale della Fotografia Femminile 2024, Mantova, Italia
> " De terre et de sang" Les Photographiques 2024, Projection, Paris, France
2023
> "Sembrando Lucha " Projection Festival ImageSingulières 2023, Sète, France
> “La rabia de las niñas ” FESTIVAL II BCN-DH. 2022, Barcelona, Spain
>“La colère des Niñas ” FESTIVAL BARROBJECTIF 2023, Barro, France
>“La colère des Niñas ” FESTIVAL BOURSIP 2023, Haute Vallée d’Aure, France
2022
>“Mujeres de la Tierra ” FOTOFESTIWAL 2022, Łódź, Poland
2021
>"Dia de muertos" FESTIVAL BOURISP -Journée du Reportage- Hautes-Pyrénées , France
2020
>“Frontières” MUSÉE NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ IMMIGRATION, Paris, France
2019
>“Las Patronas” LES RENCONTRES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES DU 10ème, Paris, France
>“Los diablos de Tlacotepec", FESTIVAL DE LOS DIABLOS, Guerrero, Mexico
>“The last Guaqueros”, FESTIVAL IMAGES D'ICI ET D'AILEURS, Carpentras, France
2018
>“L’altruisme”, ANNECY LAC PHOTO FESTIVAL, Annecy, France
>“Tegucigalpa dancing”, LES NUITS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES 7em éditions, Rabat, Morocco
> “Mujeres y Marañon”, FESTIVAL DE LA PHOTO D'ORMESSON, Ormesson, France
> “Seismo Mexico”, CUARTOSCURO, Fototeca de Zacatecas Pedro Valtierra, Mexico
2017
>“Rural woman”, CINEFABLE FESTIVAL, Espace Reuilly, Paris 12eme, France
2016
>“Private Room”, ATELIER MATRESELVA, Paris 15eme, France
Workshops
2024
>Nominated JOOP SWART MASTERCLASS by Anna Kucma
>NEW-YORK TIMES PORTFOLIO REVIEW - New-york, USA
2023
>MIRAR DISTINTO - Edition with Rodrigo Abd - Mexico
2022
>PHOTO MATCH- Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland
2020
>The Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII, USA, OnLine
2019
>Reuters instructions "Reporting & hostile environment training", Athens, Greece
2018
> Workshop ” Nikon-Bayeux security in conflict zone“, Bayeux, France
> Masterclass ” Nikon-NOOR Academy", Budapest, Hungary
Interventions
2023
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: "Your experiences as a photographer", PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL CE3P, Paris, France
> LIVE : "Captura de una lucha" with SUEÑA DIGNIDAD, Neza, Mexico
> WORKSHOP : "Rifate la Beca" with SUEÑA DIGNIDAD, Neza, Mexico
> TALK : BCN-DH Photo festival, Barcelona,Spain
2022
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, FOTOFESTIWAL, Poland
>TALK: "Conversa en Kaja" KAJA NEGRA, Mexico
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: "Your experiences as a photographer", PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL CE3P, France
2021
>LIVE: Talking Picture "The Curious Socity", USA
>PORTFOLIO REVIEW: "Solidarity for Montse S. M" , Mexico
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: "Your experiences as a photographer", PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL CE3P, France
> TALK: "Mujeres en el periodismo Mexicano" , UNIVERSIDAD AUNAM, Mexico
> LIVE: "Fotógrafas en movilizaciones contra la violencia a las mujeres", EL DÍA DESPUES, Mexico
2019
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: “Photograph outside of his country”, Visible Diplomado de fotoperiodismo, TRASLUZ COLECTIVO, Veracruz, Mexico
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, TRASLUZ COLECTIVO, Mexico
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, STUDIO HANS LUCAS LATAM, France